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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many essays in total are collected within the book Trick Mirror?

2. How many boys were a part of the reality television show series' cast?

3. How old was Tolentino when she was cast on a reality television show?

4. On what island was the reality show featured in "Reality TV Me" filmed?

5. In what year was the chopped salad first written about as a metaphor for the frenetic pace of life, according to Tolentino?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tolentino mean when she states that "the ideal woman is always optimizing" (63)?

2. How does Tolentino describe the connection between each essay's topic and her own life?

3. What two traits does Tolentino consider crucial to any place on the internet that wants to qualify as a positive space?

4. What is the main setting featured within the essay entitled "Reality TV Me"?

5. What criteria does Tolentino use in order to characterize 2012 as a major turning point in relation to the internet?

6. In what way is Tolentino uniquely positioned to assess the trajectory of the internet, as she does in the essay "The I in Internet"?

7. How does Tolentino characterize her adolescent self and for what purpose?

8. What end product does Tolentino name as the consistent result of trying to become better at being a woman or "of learning to get better at life under accelerated capitalism" (65)?

9. Who is Jess, the person featured in the essay entitled "Reality TV Me"?

10. What is Tolentino's ultimate conclusion about the future of the internet and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze Trick Mirror from an Existential perspective. What elements of life does it suggest hold the most meaning and why?

Essay Topic 2

What is Tolentino's overall message about the American identity within the collection Trick Mirror and what types of evidence does she use to prove the claim?

Essay Topic 3

What is the central purpose of the work Trick Mirror? What response do you think Tolentino wants from the text’s audience? How does each essay work in concert with the others in order to support Tolentino’s purpose?

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