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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 "Girls, Girls, Girls," Gay suggests that women want a television series or move that is what?
(a) Relatable.
(b) Funny.
(c) Inspiring.
(d) Romantic.

2. In the essay "Garish, Glorious Spectacles," who are the green girls interrupted?
(a) The beautiful women.
(b) The women who get divorced.
(c) The women on reality television shows.
(d) The teenage mothers.

3. In "What We Hunger For," what is the name of the book series with which Gay is obsessed?
(a) Sweet Valley High.
(b) The Hunger Games.
(c) Outlander.
(d) Little Women.

4. In the essay "Garish, Glorious Spectacles," who is noted as the main character in the novel Play It as It Lays?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Jenny.
(c) Ruth.
(d) Maria.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What popular television show deals primarily with all manners of sexual assault against women, children, and occasionally men, as referenced in the essay "The Careless Language of Sexual Violence"?

2. In "To Scratch, Claw, or Grope Clumsily or Frantically," what is the name of Gay's Scrabble sensei?

3. In "Typical First Year Professor," what does Gay do before teaching her first class?

4. As stated in the essay "What We Hunger For," what is one of the reasons that Gay reads?

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

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