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

2. Tolentino writes that on Sundays, her church "looked like a" (130) what?
(a) Ghost town.
(b) Circus.
(c) Carnival.
(d) Car dealership.

3. Which person in Tolentino's life suggested that she apply to the University of Virginia?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her doctor.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her guidance counselor.

4. What fraction of the world uses Facebook on at least a monthly basis?
(a) 1/4.
(b) 1/2.
(c) 1/6.
(d) 1/3.

5. What was the name of the friend who insisted that Tolentino had to play a particular color of Power Ranger?
(a) Allison.
(b) Maddie.
(c) Megan.
(d) Sarah.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first name of McFarland, the 25-year-old man who created the Fyre Festival?

2. What is the first name of the reporter whose last name is Erdely and who wrote the article called "A Rape on Campus"?

3. In what year was the Dear Colleague letter created, as discussed in the essay "We Come from Old Virginia"?

4. Tolentino states that if one were to view womanhood entirely through the lens of literature, adolescence would look like what?

5. At what age did Tolentino enter high school?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Billy McFarland?

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

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

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

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

7. Who is Esther Greenwood?

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

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

10. 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)?

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