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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 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) Game of Thrones.
(b) My Sister's Keeper.
(c) Game of Secrets.
(d) The Great Gastby.

2. 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) Men Without Women.
(d) Shakespeare's sonnets.

3. What does the artist referenced in the essay "The Smooth Surfaces of Idyll" imbue his art with?
(a) Tragedy.
(b) Joy.
(c) Suffering.
(d) Happiness.

4. In the essay "How We All Lose," what is the name of the first book that Gay criticizes for being too limited?
(a) Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus.
(b) Men Without Women.
(c) The End of Men.
(d) Big Little Liars.

5. What is the name of the book series with which Gay was obsessed in "I Once Was Miss America" ?
(a) The Agatha Cristie mystery series.
(b) The Sweet Valley High series.
(c) The Babysitter's Club series.
(d) The Sherlock Holmes series.

Short Answer Questions

1. What HBO television series created by Lena Dunham does Gay analyze in the essay "Girls, Girls, Girls"?

2. What female issue does Gay say in complex, in her essay "Garish, Glorious Spectacles"?

3. In "Peculiar Benefits," what does Gay accuse too many people of becoming?

4. Who does Gay overhear speaking poorly about her while in graduate school, in the essay "Feel Me. See Me. Hear Me. Reach Me?"

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

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