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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. In "Typical First Year Professor," what does the narrator compare compiling her professional portfolio to?
(a) Arts and crafts for adults.
(b) A game.
(c) Making music.
(d) Paint by number for adults.

2. According to the essay "The Morality of Tyler Perry," with what does Perry have a finely honed obsession?
(a) Fetishizing women.
(b) Fetishizing the working class.
(c) Fetishizing the wealthy.
(d) Fetishizing the poor.

3. In the essay "Girls, Girls, Girls," what group of people are often left out of popular cultures (such as television shows and films)?
(a) Women.
(b) Hispanics.
(c) Women over forty.
(d) People of color.

4. According to the essay "The Solace of Preparing Fried Foods," what female actress won an oscar for her performance in "The Help"?
(a) Octavia Spencer.
(b) Viola Davis.
(c) Vanessa Williams.
(d) Halle Berry.

5. In her essay "Some Jokes Are Funnier Than Others," what does Gay say that humor about sexual violence suggests?
(a) Permissiveness.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Judgement.
(d) Ignorance.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "How to Be Friends with Another Woman," what emphatic word does Gay tell women to use when speaking the truth to other women?

2. In her essay "When Less Is More," what "Orange Is the New Black" character portrayal did Gay find unrealistic?

3. In the essay "Garish, Glorious Spectacles," who is the green girl rising?

4. In the essay "How We All Love," the definition of what assaulting act continues to expand, in favor of women?

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

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