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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Peculiar Benefits," what two things does Gay cite as being a pain?
(a) Being young and being a a woman.
(b) Being black and being young.
(c) Being white and being a woman.
(d) Being black and being a woman.

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

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

4. In the essay "What We Hunger For," who initiated Gay's sexual assault?
(a) A stranger.
(b) Her boyfriend.
(c) A boy from her math class.
(d) Her uncle.

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

6. In "Girls, Girls, Girls," what is the film mentioned by Gay as an example of film revolutionizing female characters?
(a) "Runaway Bride."
(b) "Titanic."
(c) "27 Dresses."
(d) "Bridesmaids."

7. According to the essay "A Tale of Three Coming Out Stories," what popular journalist "came out" in 2012?
(a) Anderson Cooper.
(b) Andrew Cooper.
(c) Hunter S. Thompson.
(d) Cooper Anderson.

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

9. In the essay "The Spectacle of Broken Men," what is the name of the Penn State football player who was accused of sexually abusing young boys?
(a) Jerry Rice.
(b) John Elway.
(c) Jerry Sandusky.
(d) Payton Manning.

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

11. In the essay "Beyond the Measure of Men," what is the ambiguous term that refers to untrue stories written by women?
(a) False fiction.
(b) Women's nonfiction.
(c) Women's fallacies.
(d) Women's fiction.

12. Approximately how old is the narrator in "Typical First Year Professor"?
(a) In her late twenties.
(b) In her thirties.
(c) In her fifties.
(d) In her forties.

13. In the essay "Not Here to Make Friends," what does Gay think about the question of likeability even existing in literary conversations?
(a) That it is vital.
(b) That it is sad.
(c) That it is odd.
(d) That it is necessary.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to "What We Hunger For," what adjective best describes the Hunger Games female protagonist?

2. Who does Gay overhear speaking poorly about her while in graduate school, in the essay "Feel Me. See Me. Hear Me. Reach Me?"

3. In "Typical First Year Professor," what holiday does the narrator reference in her comparison of teaching to a child sitting at an adult dinner table?

4. In the essay "The Careless Language of Sexual Violence," what phrase refers to a culture where where it is acceptable for males to treat females violently?

5. In the essay "I Once Was Miss America," what is the name of the woman who actually wins Miss America?

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