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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Cult of a Difficult Woman" and "I Thee Dread".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tolentino discusses a particular literary hero and his discovery of all but which of the following?
(a) Story.
(b) Self.
(c) Success.
(d) Identity.

2. What kind of bird was Nigel, the bird whose story went viral when he died protecting a concrete statue of another bird?
(a) A crow.
(b) A robin.
(c) A hawk.
(d) A seagull.

3. Tolentino describes the topics of the collection's essays by using which object as a metaphor?
(a) A rainbow.
(b) A microscope.
(c) A mirror.
(d) A prism.

4. When Tolentino was in college, a male student put Rophypnol into which substance that Tolentino was ingesting?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Milk.
(c) Tea.
(d) Soda.

5. Whose political loss does Tolentino say she will "mourn forever" (262)?
(a) Ginsberg.
(b) Sanders.
(c) Dukakis.
(d) Clinton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tolentino states in "Always Be Optimizing" that perhaps we need to learn from which figure?

2. In what year was the final group of millennials born, according to Tolentino?

3. Of what material were the queen's slippers at the royal wedding made, as discussed in "I Thee Dread"?

4. In Tolentino's discussions of Facebook, she asserts that Mark Zuckerberg "controls a" (169) what?

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

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