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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. What HBO television series created by Lena Dunham does Gay analyze in the essay "Girls, Girls, Girls"?
(a) "Project Runway."
(b) "Say Yes to the Dress."
(c) "Girls."
(d) "Sex and the City."

2. According to "What We Hunger For," what adjective best describes the Hunger Games female protagonist?
(a) Sweet.
(b) Sensitive.
(c) Sly.
(d) Strong.

3. According to the essay "How We All Lose," what does every writer have?
(a) A dream.
(b) A demon.
(c) An obsession.
(d) An inner critic.

4. In "Feel Me. See Me. Hear Me. Reach Me." what does Gay repeatedly think to herself when around her co-workers?
(a) Please like me.
(b) Please do not hate me.
(c) Please be my friend.
(d) Please be kind to me.

5. Approximately how old is the narrator in "Typical First Year Professor"?
(a) In her thirties.
(b) In her fifties.
(c) In her late twenties.
(d) In her forties.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Gay bring to one of her first classes to intrigue the students in "Typical First Year Professor"?

3. According to James Wood (a writer Gay references in the essay "Not Here to Make Friends"), characters should be reflections of what?

4. What sport do both Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield participate in, as mentioned in the essay "I Once Was Miss America"?

5. In the essay "Garish, Glorious Spectacles," who is the noted as the main character in the novel Green Girl?

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