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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction and "The I in Internet".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tolentino states in the essay "The I in Internet" that what product "has become capitalism's last natural resource" (11) as a result of the internet?
(a) Bandwidth.
(b) Selfhood.
(c) Technology.
(d) Deception.

2. Tolentino describes the topics of the collection's essays by using which object as a metaphor?
(a) A prism.
(b) A mirror.
(c) A rainbow.
(d) A microscope.

3. At ten, Tolentino admonished her younger self for looking at which kinds of sites during her first sessions online?
(a) Tomagatchis.
(b) Pogo-balls.
(c) Furbies.
(d) Beanie Babies.

4. Tolentino notes that the third problematic trait of the internet is that it distends what types of feelings?
(a) Selfish.
(b) Empathetic.
(c) Adversarial.
(d) Existential.

5. Tolentino asserts that the internet tends to minimize the need for what type of action?
(a) Efficient.
(b) Meaningful.
(c) Impulsive.
(d) Physical.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tolentino laments in "The I in Internet" the way in which womanhood can so often "feel like a story of loss of" (28) what?

2. The Angelfire subpage Tolentino discusses in the text is titled, "The Story of How Jia Got" (7) what?

3. What year does Tolentino name as a turning point for the internet's transition to a new organizing principle?

4. The pizza parlor associated with Pizzagate was called DC's Comet what?

5. To which element of life does the term "panopticon" (16) refer, as explained by Tolentino in "The I in Internet"?

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