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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. What kind of festival was the Fyre Festival discussed by Tolentino?
(a) Food.
(b) Music.
(c) Dance.
(d) Art.

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

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

4. Tolentino states that Zuckerberg controls what kinds of definitions for Facebook users?
(a) Philosophical.
(b) Political.
(c) Social.
(d) Moral.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The colleges to which Tolentino applied were mostly in New England and in which state?

2. How old is Esther Greenwood in the novel in which she is the featured protagonist?

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

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

5. At what age did Tolentino enter high school?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Discuss Tolentino's reason for discussing at length Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar in the essay entitled "Pure Heroines."

4. Who is Billy McFarland?

5. Who is Esther Greenwood?

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

7. 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)?

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

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

10. 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?

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