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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Politics, Gender & Race Essays 3 & 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to James Wood (a writer Gay references in the essay "Not Here to Make Friends"), characters should be reflections of what?
(a) Our better selves.
(b) Our perfect selves.
(c) Our glorified selves.
(d) Our real selves.

2. In the essay "Garish, Glorious Spectacles," who is the noted as the main character in the novel Green Girl?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Jenny.
(c) Maria.
(d) Ruth.

3. According to the essay "The Solace of Preparing Fried Foods," what is the name of the white woman who wrote The Help?
(a) Kathryn Stockett.
(b) Emma Thompson.
(c) Joan Didion.
(d) Roxanne Gay.

4. According to the essay 'Beyond the Struggle Narrative," for what film did Hattie McDanniel win an Oscar?
(a) "12 years a Slave."
(b) "Gone With the Wind."
(c) "Django."
(d) "The Help."

5. In "Peculiar Benefits," what two things does Gay cite as being a pain?
(a) Being young and being a a woman.
(b) Being black and being a woman.
(c) Being white and being a woman.
(d) Being black and being young.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Feel Me. See Me. Hear Me. Reach Me." how does Gay describe feeling at the end of graduate school?

2. What is the name of the contemporary artist that Gay references in the essay "The Smooth Surfaces of Idyll"?

3. In the essay "The Careless Language of Sexual Violence," what phrase refers to a culture where where it is acceptable for males to treat females violently?

4. What is the name of the disorder that is fantasized by the Fifty Shades of Grey series, according to the essay "The Trouble with Prince Charming"?

5. In the essay "How We All Love," what phrase does Moran, author of "How to Be a Woman," want to reclaim?

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