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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 states in the essay "Ectasy" that she has spent how many years trying to undo her first 15 years of religious training?
(a) 20.
(b) 10.
(c) 25.
(d) 15.

2. What drug does Tolentino claim can be useful to one's emotional health if used sparingly?
(a) Cocaine.
(b) St. John's Wort.
(c) Ecstasy.
(d) Melatonin.

3. How does Tolentino define her cultural identity?
(a) Chinese-American.
(b) Filipino-American.
(c) Indian.
(d) African-American.

4. What is the name of Liz Seccuro's memoir about her experiences of surviving rape during her college years?
(a) Under the Table and Dreaming.
(b) Crash into Me.
(c) March of the Ants.
(d) March of the Pigs.

5. How many people did Tolentino's church seat, according to her account?
(a) 600.
(b) 1,300.
(c) 800.
(d) 400.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city does the novel The Bell Jar take place?

2. What fraction of the world uses Facebook on at least a monthly basis?

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

4. Videos of what sorry excuse for food went viral in connection with the Fyre Festival?

5. In Tolentino's discussions of Facebook, she asserts that Mark Zuckerberg "controls a" (169) what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Who is Billy McFarland?

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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