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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. The building featured in The Bell Jar was patterned after which real building?

2. When Tolentino was in college, a male student put Rophypnol into which substance that Tolentino was ingesting?

3. What was the name of the friend who insisted that Tolentino had to play a particular color of Power Ranger?

4. Which action taken by a particular hero is considered evidence by Tolentino that he has come to certain realizations?

5. In what year was Tolentino's childhood church founded, though she started attending in the mid-nineties?

Short Essay Questions

1. What connection does Tolentino draw between her religious upbringing and her interest in ecstasy?

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

3. Who is Esther Greenwood?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

What is Tolentino's message about the relationship between privilege and delusion within the collection of essays entitled Trick Mirror?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay examining how the text portrays the American Dream. Is there one American Dream or are there many different ones, according to Tolentino? What is the text saying about the American dream in the twenty-first century?

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