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

2. In the essay "Not Here to Make Friends," what popular movie does Gay reference as an example of a woman pretending in a relationship?
(a) Bridesmaids.
(b) Girl with the Dragon Tatoo.
(c) Gone Girl.
(d) Runaway Bride.

3. In the essay "I Once Was Miss America," what does Gay say is contagious?
(a) Laughter.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Popularity.

4. Who does Gay overhear speaking poorly about her while in graduate school, in the essay "Feel Me. See Me. Hear Me. Reach Me?"
(a) A classmate.
(b) Her boss.
(c) A professor.
(d) Her boyfriend.

5. What is the name of the Junot Diaz collection that Gay analyzes in "How We All Lose"?
(a) "This is How You Lose Her."
(b) "Death of a Salesman."
(c) "On Beauty."
(d) "This is How you Love Her."

Short Answer Questions

1. In the essay "Not Here to Make Friends," what does Gay think about the question of likeability even existing in literary conversations?

2. In "To Scratch, Claw, or Grope Clumsily or Frantically," what game is Gay playing and referring to?

3. 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?

4. What does the main character in the novel Skinny need to write while at fat camp, as noted in the essay "Reaching for Catharsis"?

5. What short story collection contains many stories with seemingly unlikeable women, according to the essay "Not Here to make Friends"?

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