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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. Tolentino writes that on Sundays, her church "looked like a" (130) what?

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

3. In Tolentino's discussions of Facebook, she asserts that Mark Zuckerberg "controls a" (169) what?

4. In what level of school was Tolentino when her friend insisted that she had to be a certain color of Power Ranger?

5. What was the last name of the woman who wrote The Second Sex, the book discussed by Tolentino in the essay "Pure Heroines"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is Esther Greenwood?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Explain how Tolentino contrasts her journalism skills in 2011 with her journalism skills in 2020.

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

Tolentino begins the text with a quote from a Sylvia Plath poem. Explain how this poem excerpt relates to the text and how it reflects the text’s themes.

Essay Topic 3

What is Tolentino's message regarding the difference between awareness and activism and how does Tolentino get this message across to the reader?

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