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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 kind of festival was the Fyre Festival discussed by Tolentino?
(a) Food.
(b) Art.
(c) Dance.
(d) Music.

2. The title of the essay "Always Be Optimizing" is an allusion to which play?
(a) Cats.
(b) Waiting for Godot.
(c) Glengarry Glen Ross.
(d) Rent.

3. Tolentino points out the way in which tweets do not allow for the inclusion of what types of experiences?
(a) Individual.
(b) Complex.
(c) Communal.
(d) Authentic.

4. What was the name of the friend who insisted that Tolentino had to play a particular color of Power Ranger?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Allison.
(c) Maddie.
(d) Megan.

5. Tolentino states that she finished writing Trick Mirror in which season of 2018?
(a) Spring.
(b) Fall.
(c) Winter.
(d) Summer.

Short Answer Questions

1. The cast member named Cory came from a small town in which state?

2. When Tolentino was in college, a male student put Rophypnol into which substance that Tolentino was ingesting?

3. What kind of bird was Nigel, the bird whose story went viral when he died protecting a concrete statue of another bird?

4. What kind of debt does Tolentino characterize as a "generation-defining scam" (188)?

5. The first line of the essay "The I in Internet" states, "In the beginning the internet seemed" (7) what?

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