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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. To which television show does Tolentino allude toward the end of the essay entitled "Always Be Optimizing"?

2. How many camera from the reality television show filmed the events at the bioluminescent bay?

3. Tolentino states that she finished writing Trick Mirror in which season of 2018?

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

5. Tolentino states in "Always Be Optimizing" that perhaps we need to learn from which figure?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tolentino contrast her real feelings about taking part in Girls vs. Boys: Puerto Rico with the impression she gave her family?

2. What does the bioluminescent bay symbolize in the essay entitled "Reality TV Me"?

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

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

5. Name a piece of evidence Tolentino uses to support her claims about the misogynistic qualities of the now-defunct online community called 4Chan.

6. What element does Tolentino characterize as "capitalism's last natural resource" (11) in the essay entitled "The I in Internet"?

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

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. What psychological effect of the current incarnation of the world wide web does Tolentino find most dangerous and why?

10. How many essays are contained within Trick Mirror and around what theme do they all revolve?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What message does Tolentino send within the pages of Trick Mirror concerning the link between privilege and delusion?

Essay Topic 2

How is the theme of courage treated within Trick Mirror and how does its treatment relate to the collection's depicted messages?

Essay Topic 3

What is Tolentino's message regarding the difference between awareness and activism and how does Tolentino get this message across to the reader?

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