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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Cult of a Difficult Woman" and "I Thee Dread".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose literary wedding is described within her novel as a bride who has sweetly surrendered?
(a) Pippi Longstocking.
(b) Laura Ingalls.
(c) Anne of Green Gables.
(d) Esther Greenwood.

2. By the end of which decade were three-fourths of American women married?
(a) The 1920s.
(b) The 1930s.
(c) The 1950s.
(d) The 1960s.

3. Which literary hero does Tolentino utilize in order to discuss the recognition of three certain aspects of life?
(a) Ulysses.
(b) Hercules.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Dante.

4. What year does Tolentino name as a turning point for the internet's transition to a new organizing principle?
(a) 2014.
(b) 2010.
(c) 2009.
(d) 2012.

5. How does Tolentino define her cultural identity?
(a) Filipino-American.
(b) Indian.
(c) African-American.
(d) Chinese-American.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which department store invented the wedding registry?

2. Tolentino claims that the second problematic quality of the internet is that it encourages people to overestimate the value of what?

3. Tolentino states that which people have acted as the "primary teaching tools" wielded by "the marketplace" (235)?

4. How does Tolentino describe the new organizing principle that came to envelop most online interactions in a particular year?

5. How many dollars did Tolentino's father offer to give her if she tried out for the reality show?

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