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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Gender & Sexuality Essays 9-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What female issue does Gay say in complex, in her essay "Garish, Glorious Spectacles"?
(a) Death.
(b) Sex.
(c) Abortion.
(d) Pregnancy.

3. In the essay "A Tale of Three Coming Out Stories," a son of a lesbian couple testifies in their defense. In what state did that couple live?
(a) Nebraska.
(b) Colorado.
(c) New Mexico.
(d) Iowa.

4. 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) "This is How you Love Her."
(c) "On Beauty."
(d) "Death of a Salesman."

5. What is the name of the contemporary artist that Gay references in the essay "The Smooth Surfaces of Idyll"?
(a) Frida Kahol.
(b) Andy Warhol.
(c) Vincent Van gogh.
(d) Thornton Dial.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to "What We Hunger For," what adjective best describes the Hunger Games female protagonist?

2. In the essay "Garish, Glorious Spectacles," who are the green girls interrupted?

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

4. Approximately how old is the narrator in "Typical First Year Professor"?

5. In the essay "What We Hunger For," what happened to Gay as a teenager in the woods?

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