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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the essay "How We All Love," what percent of the 535 seats in the 113th Congress do women represent?
(a) 22.4%.
(b) 15.4%.
(c) 18.3%.
(d) 20%.

2. In the essay "How We All Lose," what does Gay say we need to overcome?
(a) Our resistance to love.
(b) Our resistance to diversity.
(c) Our resistance to nuance.
(d) Our resistance to compassion.

3. In the essay "What We Hunger For," what happened to Gay as a teenager in the woods?
(a) She was saved.
(b) She was raped.
(c) She was rescued.
(d) She was asked to prom.

4. In the essay "Some Jokes Are Funnier Than Others," what major event were the children watching in their science classroom?
(a) The Vietnam riots.
(b) The first man walking on the moon.
(c) The Challenger.
(d) JFK's funeral.

5. What short story collection contains many stories with seemingly unlikeable women, according to the essay "Not Here to make Friends"?
(a) Shakespeare's sonnets.
(b) Battleborn.
(c) A Christmas Carol.
(d) Men Without Women.

6. In the essay "Beyond the Measure of Men," what two authors wrote novels that are classified as "women's fiction"?
(a) John Updike and Richard Yates.
(b) John Updike and Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Ernest Hemingway and Richard Yates.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.

7. In the essay "Garish, Glorious Spectacles," who is the green girl rising?
(a) Joan.
(b) Maria.
(c) Ruth.
(d) Jenny.

8. In the essay "Blurred Lines, Indeed," what is the name of the musician who sings about giving a good girl what she really wants?
(a) Robin Thicke.
(b) Eminem.
(c) Tupac.
(d) Jay-Z.

9. In the essay "Not Here to Make Friends," what book is the character Sara Levine obsessed with?
(a) Little Women.
(b) Catcher in the Rye.
(c) Pride and Prejudice.
(d) Treasure Island.

10. According to the essay "The Trouble with Prince Charming," what literary classification applies to the Fifty Shades of Grey series?
(a) Mystery.
(b) Fairy tale.
(c) Creative nonfiction.
(d) Horror.

11. In the essay "The Illusion of Safety," what sort of reactions does Gay experience to her triggers?
(a) Visceral.
(b) Mental.
(c) Emotional.
(d) Imaginary.

12. In the essay "How We All Lose," what is the name of the first book that Gay criticizes for being too limited?
(a) Men Without Women.
(b) Big Little Liars.
(c) Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus.
(d) The End of Men.

13. What is the name of the Junot Diaz collection that Gay analyzes in "How We All Lose"?
(a) "Death of a Salesman."
(b) "On Beauty."
(c) "This is How you Love Her."
(d) "This is How You Lose Her."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the essay "The Trouble with Prince Charming," what does Gay suggest that women must do to find happiness in fairytales?

2. In "Feel Me. See Me. Hear Me. Reach Me." what BET show does it take Gay a long time to appreciate?

3. In the essay "Garish, Glorious Spectacles," who is noted as the main character in the novel Play It as It Lays?

4. According to the essay "The Spectacle of Broken Men," what was the relationship between the man and the girl who was raped?

5. In the essay "What We Hunger For," who initiated Gay's sexual assault?

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