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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the last name of the woman who wrote The Second Sex, the book discussed by Tolentino in the essay "Pure Heroines"?
(a) Lancet.
(b) Pickford.
(c) De Beauvoir.
(d) Kinsey.

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

3. At the start of the essay entitled "Ecstasy," Tolentino recalls that the church of her childhood had trees of what variety on its property?
(a) Elm.
(b) Maple.
(c) Chestnut.
(d) Oak.

4. Tolentino comments on Erdely's mistakes by stating that which kind of intentions "often produce blind spots" (208)?
(a) Sincere.
(b) Earnest.
(c) Unwitting.
(d) Good.

5. What kind of debt does Tolentino characterize as a "generation-defining scam" (188)?
(a) Student.
(b) Credit card.
(c) Homeowner.
(d) Timeshare.

6. What term does Tolentino use to describe the size of the congregation at her childhood church?
(a) Moderate.
(b) Big.
(c) Sizable.
(d) Enormous.

7. How old is Esther Greenwood in the novel in which she is the featured protagonist?
(a) 19.
(b) 23.
(c) 25.
(d) 21.

8. In which magazine was the article called "A Rape on Campus," written by Erdely, published?
(a) Mademoiselle.
(b) Rolling Stone.
(c) Esquire.
(d) Interview.

9. Which emotion did Tolentino feel most strongly during the interaction about the Power Rangers?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Anger.
(c) Shame.
(d) Confusion.

10. The colleges to which Tolentino applied were mostly in New England and in which state?
(a) New York.
(b) Alabama.
(c) California.
(d) Texas.

11. For which publication was Tolentino writing when "A Rape on Campus" was published by Erdely?
(a) Jezebel.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The Guardian.
(d) BuzzFeed.

12. Which literary hero does Tolentino utilize in order to discuss the recognition of three certain aspects of life?
(a) Ulysses.
(b) Dante.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Hercules.

13. In Tolentino's discussions of Facebook, she asserts that Mark Zuckerberg "controls a" (169) what?
(a) Hemisphere.
(b) Country.
(c) Nation-state.
(d) Population.

14. From which American city did the genre of music known as "chopped and screwed" (136) emerge?
(a) Seattle.
(b) Houston.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Santa Fe.

15. What term does Tolentino use to describe the salaries of college faculty in America during the twenty-first century?
(a) Soaring.
(b) Stagnant.
(c) Rising.
(d) Falling.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which college offered Tolentino a full scholarship while she was deciding which college to attend?

2. What fraction of the world uses Facebook on at least a monthly basis?

3. In what year was Tolentino's childhood church founded, though she started attending in the mid-nineties?

4. Tolentino states that if one were to view womanhood entirely through the lens of literature, adolescence would look like what?

5. Tolentino states that Zuckerberg controls what kinds of definitions for Facebook users?

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