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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tolentino states that if one were to view womanhood entirely through the lens of literature, adulthood would look like what?
(a) Depression.
(b) Resignation.
(c) Anger.
(d) Bitterness.

2. In which town is the University of Virginia located?
(a) Lincoln.
(b) Arlington.
(c) Dover.
(d) Charlottesville.

3. Tolentino states that if one were to view womanhood entirely through the lens of literature, adolescence would look like what?
(a) Bitterness.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Anger.
(d) Confusion.

4. What level of school was Tolentino attending when she began to feel "twinges of guilt" (134) after each church service?
(a) College.
(b) Elementary school.
(c) Middle school.
(d) High school.

5. In which American city did Tolentino grow up?
(a) San Antonio.
(b) Houston.
(c) Phoenix.
(d) Santa Fe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does Tolentino use to describe the size of the congregation at her childhood church?

2. In what year was the disastrous Fyre Festival held?

3. What term does Tolentino use to describe the salaries of college faculty in America during the twenty-first century?

4. In what level of school was Tolentino when her friend insisted that she had to be a certain color of Power Ranger?

5. Which person in Tolentino's life suggested that she apply to the University of Virginia?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the main claim being made within the essay entitled "Pure Heroines" and how do you know?

2. What dark side does Tolentino discuss in relation to effervescent and young female characters in fiction?

3. For what reason does Tolentino characterize student debt in America as a "generation-defining scam" (167)?

4. What underlying reasons does Tolentino point to when she discusses scam culture and its takeover of the online landscape?

5. Why does Tolentino describe the Rolling Stone article "A Rape on Campus" as "now infamously, a graphic account of a gang rape at Phi Kappa Psi," (197) a fraternity at the University of Virginia?

6. What was the "'Dear Colleague' letter" (200) that Tolentino discusses in the essay "We Come from Old Virginia"?

7. Why does Tolentino use the term "Repentagon" (130) in association with her childhood church?

8. How and why does Tolentino bring in the work of Simone de Beauvoir in the essay entitled "Pure Heroines"?

9. On which generation does the essay "The Story of a Generation of Seven Scams" focus?

10. Describe an instance in "We Come from Old Virginia" when Tolentino depicts her younger self as a product of a patriarchal society.

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