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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Race & Entertainment Essays 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What other famous actor is mentioned in the essay "Dear Young Ladies Who Love Chris Brown" as a man who physically abused his wife and got away with it for the sake of fame?
(a) Tom Hanks.
(b) Denzel Washington.
(c) Charlie Sheen.
(d) Adam Sandler.

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

3. According to James Wood (a writer Gay references in the essay "Not Here to Make Friends"), characters should be reflections of what?
(a) Our perfect selves.
(b) Our real selves.
(c) Our better selves.
(d) Our glorified selves.

4. In "Feel Me. See Me. Hear Me. Reach Me." how does Gay describe feeling at the end of graduate school?
(a) Confident.
(b) Burnt out.
(c) Excited.
(d) Scared.

5. 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"?
(a) Law and Order: SVU.
(b) Grey's Anatomy.
(c) Rescue 911.
(d) General Hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. In her essay "When Less Is More," what does Gay argue we need to see more of in films and television?

2. In the essay "The Morality of Tyler Perry," what does Gay say that Perry uses as punishment for infidelity?

3. "Orange Is the New Black" is based on what genre of books, according to her essay "When Less Is More"?

4. According to the essay "How We All Love," in what professional field does Rosin say women are acheiving success?

5. In the essay "Beyond the Measure of Men," what is the ambiguous term that refers to untrue stories written by women?

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