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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Gender & Sexuality Essays 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What short story collection contains many stories with seemingly unlikeable women, according to the essay "Not Here to make Friends"?
(a) A Christmas Carol.
(b) Battleborn.
(c) Shakespeare's sonnets.
(d) Men Without Women.

2. In the essay "How We All Lose," what does Gay say we need to overcome?
(a) Our resistance to love.
(b) Our resistance to compassion.
(c) Our resistance to nuance.
(d) Our resistance to diversity.

3. What is the name of the book that Gay references in "The Smooth Surfaces of Idyll," noting that the many of the characters find happiness?
(a) My Sister's Keeper.
(b) Game of Thrones.
(c) The Great Gastby.
(d) Game of Secrets.

4. In the essay "How We All Love," what phrase does Moran, author of "How to Be a Woman," want to reclaim?
(a) Caring feminist.
(b) Strident feminist.
(c) Strict feminist.
(d) Pretty feminist.

5. In the essay "How We All Love," the definition of what assaulting act continues to expand, in favor of women?
(a) Alcohol Abuse.
(b) Rape.
(c) Domestic Abuse.
(d) Murder.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the essay "Garish, Glorious Spectacles," who is the green girl rising?

2. In the essay "The Smooth Surfaces of Idyll," what does Gay say is not a popular topic in fiction?

3. In the essay "Not Here to Make Friends," what book is the character Sara Levine obsessed with?

4. In "Typical First Year Professor," what holiday does the narrator reference in her comparison of teaching to a child sitting at an adult dinner table?

5. In the essay "Girls, Girls, Girls," Gay suggests that women want a television series or move that is what?

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