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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Race & Entertainment Essays 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the essay "The Solace of Preparing Fried Foods," what film is Gay critiquing?
(a) "Shawshank Redemption."
(b) "The Firm."
(c) "Sex and the City."
(d) "The Help."

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

3. According to the essay "To Scratch, Claw, or Grope Clumsily or Frantically," how many possible Scrabble words exist in "completely"?
(a) 235.
(b) 207.
(c) 227.
(d) 200.

4. In the essay "I Once Was Miss America," what is the name of the woman who actually wins Miss America?
(a) Jessica Wakefield.
(b) Lila Fowler.
(c) Cindy Crawford.
(d) Vanessa Williams.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the essay "Surviving Django," how many times in the "N" word used in the film "Django"?

2. In "Girls, Girls, Girls," what is the film mentioned by Gay as an example of film revolutionizing female characters?

3. What does the artist referenced in the essay "The Smooth Surfaces of Idyll" imbue his art with?

4. What book does Gay reference in her essay "Beyond the Measure of Men" as an example of short stories that tell the many ways men and women failure one another?

5. According to the essay "How We All Love," what percent of the 535 seats in the 113th Congress do women represent?

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