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

2. What is the name of the building in which the protagonist lives in the novel The Bell Jar?

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

4. Tolentino provides a long list of female literary protagonists who are victims of which crime?

5. At the start of the essay entitled "Ecstasy," Tolentino recalls that the church of her childhood had trees of what variety on its property?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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)?

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

5. Who is Esther Greenwood?

6. Describe an instance in "We Come from Old Virginia" when Tolentino depicts her younger self as a product of a patriarchal society.

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Examine the effects of stress on the collection's discussed people and the coping methods each main subject uses to deal with emotional turmoil. Which people’s methods are effective, which are ineffective, and how do these varying levels of efficiency affect the messages sent within Tolentino’s book Trick Mirror?

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