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

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

3. In "Peculiar Benefits," where does Gay travel with her family to learn about privilege?
(a) Haiti.
(b) Japan.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Guatemala.

4. In the essay "The Careless Language of Sexual Violence," what psychological issue does gang-rape often lead to?
(a) Eating disorders.
(b) Bipolar.
(c) PTSD.
(d) Suicide.

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

6. What is the name of the book that Gay references in "The Smooth Surfaces of Idyll," noting that the many of the characters find happiness?
(a) The Great Gastby.
(b) My Sister's Keeper.
(c) Game of Secrets.
(d) Game of Thrones.

7. What is the name of the Garret Keizer book that Gay references in "A Tale of Three Coming Out Stories"?
(a) The Secret.
(b) Privacy.
(c) Solitude.
(d) Desert Solitaire.

8. 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.

9. 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) "Sex and the City."
(d) "Girls."

10. 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) General Hospital.
(b) Rescue 911.
(c) Grey's Anatomy.
(d) Law and Order: SVU.

11. In the essay "Dear Young Ladies Who Love Chris Brown," who is the famous musician and former girlfriend whom Chris Brown physically hit?
(a) Adele.
(b) Rhianna.
(c) Madonna.
(d) Byonce.

12. In her essay "A Tale of Three Coming Out Stories," what does Gay suggest that people feel most comfortable with?
(a) Uncertainty.
(b) Classification.
(c) Gays.
(d) Friends.

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

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

15. What does the main character in the novel Skinny need to write while at fat camp, as noted in the essay "Reaching for Catharsis"?
(a) Journal entries.
(b) Text messages.
(c) Post cards.
(d) Letters.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the essay "Blurred Lines," what does Gay sarcastically suggest that everyone needs to do when reacting to rape lyrics in songs?

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

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

4. In the essay "A Tale of Three Coming Out Stories," a son of a lesbian couple testifies in their defense. In what state did that couple live?

5. According to the essay "The Trouble with Prince Charming," what literary classification applies to the Fifty Shades of Grey series?

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