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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 kind of debt had until recently been carried by the greatest number of Americans?

3. What term does Tolentino use to describe the salaries of college faculty in America during the twenty-first century?

4. When the article "A Rape on Campus" was published, for how many years had Erdely been out of college?

5. In what month of the year was the disastrous Fyre Festival held?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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)?

6. Describe an instance in one of the essays when Tolentino utilizes sensory details with a particular purpose in mind.

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

8. What was the "'Dear Colleague' letter" (200) that Tolentino discusses in the essay "We Come from Old Virginia"?

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

10. For what reason does Tolentino characterize student debt in America as a "generation-defining scam" (167)?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the ways in which the themes of adaptability and resignation appear within Tolentino’s collection Trick Mirror. What message is Tolentino sending about these two themes over the course of the narrative?

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