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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. Which of Tolentino's actions the night she was drugged prevented her from being raped?
(a) She vomited.
(b) She kicked.
(c) She punched.
(d) She bit.

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

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

4. What kind of debt had until recently been carried by the greatest number of Americans?
(a) Homeowner.
(b) Credit card.
(c) Car.
(d) Student.

5. Which action taken by a particular hero is considered evidence by Tolentino that he has come to certain realizations?
(a) Singing.
(b) Collapsing.
(c) Crying.
(d) Screaming.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which emotion did Tolentino feel most strongly during the interaction about the Power Rangers?

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

4. How does Tolentino define her cultural identity?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Billy McFarland?

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

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

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

6. To what types of evidence does Tolentino point after she states, "Something likely happened to Jackie on September 28, 2012" (203)?

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

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

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

10. What distinction does Tolentino make between the depiction of trauma in children's literature and the depiction of trauma in adult literature?

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