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

2. What was the first name of the woman who accused members of the fraternity Phi Kappa Psi of rape?
(a) Jackie.
(b) Michelle.
(c) Sandra.
(d) Sasha.

3. In what level of school was Tolentino when her friend insisted that she had to be a certain color of Power Ranger?
(a) Elementary.
(b) Kindergarten.
(c) Middle.
(d) High.

4. What was the first name of McFarland, the 25-year-old man who created the Fyre Festival?
(a) Jeffrey.
(b) Bobby.
(c) Billy.
(d) Jimmy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which action taken by a particular hero is considered evidence by Tolentino that he has come to certain realizations?

2. What was the name of the friend who insisted that Tolentino had to play a particular color of Power Ranger?

3. Which of Tolentino's actions the night she was drugged prevented her from being raped?

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

5. What is the name of Liz Seccuro's memoir about her experiences of surviving rape during her college years?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In what way did an incident with her friend Allison change the way Tolentino viewed herself?

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

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

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

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

8. What connection does Tolentino draw between her religious upbringing and her interest in ecstasy?

9. Explain how Tolentino contrasts her journalism skills in 2011 with her journalism skills in 2020.

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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