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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “The Story of a Generation of Seven Scams” and "We Come From Virginia".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term does Tolentino use in the essay "Ecstasy" to refer to the church she attended throughout childhood and part of adolescence?
(a) Revival.
(b) Guiltland.
(c) Jail.
(d) Repentagon.

2. Jess performed what role within the reality television series Boys Vs. Girls?
(a) Director.
(b) Casting agent.
(c) Travel agent.
(d) Producer.

3. In what level of school was Tolentino when her friend insisted that she had to be a certain color of Power Ranger?
(a) Kindergarten.
(b) Middle.
(c) High.
(d) Elementary.

4. What year does Tolentino name as a turning point for the internet's transition to a new organizing principle?
(a) 2014.
(b) 2010.
(c) 2009.
(d) 2012.

5. To which element of life does the term "panopticon" (16) refer, as explained by Tolentino in "The I in Internet"?
(a) Reflection.
(b) Punishment.
(c) Definition.
(d) Surveillance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT a word Tolentino uses to describe particular elements of the internet that soured after a turning point she names?

2. What is NOT one of the three "nightmarish metaphorical structures" (16) Tolentino says the internet added to the existing structures of stage and audience?

3. Tolentino describes the topics of the collection's essays by using which object as a metaphor?

4. What is the name of the restaurant that Tolentino discusses in "Always Be Optimizing"?

5. Tolentino discusses a particular literary hero and his discovery of all but which of the following?

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