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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's friend had insisted that Tolentino could never play which color of Power Ranger in their game?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Blue.
(c) Pink.
(d) Orange.

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

3. Who wrote the novel that features a protagonist named Esther Greenwood?
(a) J.D. Salinger.
(b) Jane Austen.
(c) Virginia Woolf.
(d) Sylvia Plath.

4. Tolentino states in "Pure Heroines" that if one were to view womanhood entirely through the lens of literature, childhood would look like what?
(a) Fun.
(b) Innocence.
(c) Power.
(d) Judgment.

5. 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) Chestnut.
(b) Elm.
(c) Oak.
(d) Maple.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tolentino writes that on Sundays, her church "looked like a" (130) what?

2. Tolentino had recently moved to which city at the time "A Rape on Campus" was published?

3. When the article "A Rape on Campus" was published, for how many years had Erdely been out of college?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. For what reason did Tolentino end up attending the University of Virginia, though she had "applied mostly to schools in New England and California" (196)?

5. Who is Billy McFarland?

6. What does Tolentino mean when she asserts that Mark Zuckerberg "controls a nation-state" (169)?

7. Which of the seven scams discussed in the essay "The Story of a Generation of Seven Scams" does Tolentino consider the most egregious example and why?

8. What is the symbolism of the Amazon building Tolentino discusses in the essay entitled "Pure Heroines"?

9. Analyze Tolentino's reason for using an allusion to Ulysses in the essay entitled "Pure Heroines."

10. Describe an instance in one of the essays when Tolentino utilizes sensory details with a particular purpose in mind.

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