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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What female issue does Gay say in complex, in her essay "Garish, Glorious Spectacles"?
(a) Death.
(b) Pregnancy.
(c) Abortion.
(d) Sex.

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

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

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

5. 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) Adele.
(d) Rhianna.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gay bring to one of her first classes to intrigue the students in "Typical First Year Professor"?

2. In the essay "Some Jokes Are Funnier Than Others," what male comedian does Gay criticize for his behavior?

3. According to the essay "How We All Lose," what does every writer have?

4. In the essay "Not Here to Make Friends," what book is the character Sara Levine obsessed with?

5. In "To Scratch, Claw, or Grope Clumsily or Frantically," what is the name of Gay's Scrabble sensei?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the essay "The Trouble with Prince Charming, or He Who Trespassed Against Us," what is the truth about fairytales?

2. In "To Scratch, Claw, or Grope Clumsily or Frantically," how does Gay respond when she hears all the rules to the game?

3. In the essay "What We Hunger For," why does Gay admire the Hunger Games character Katniss?

4. What does the sole female participant say to comedian Daniel Tosh in the essay "Some Jokes Are Funnier Than Others"?

5. In the essay "Dear Young Ladies Who Love Chris Brown," what does Gay predict will happen to his behavior?

6. When Gay reflects on the book by Jennifer Pozner in her essay "Garish, Glorious Spectacles," how does she say women are portrayed in reality television?

7. In the essay "The Trouble with Prince Charming, or He Who Trespassed Against Us," what does Gay suggest that the Fifty Grades series is, at its core?

8. In the essay "The Trouble with Prince Charming," how are readers supposed to respond to Ana's character in the Fifty Grades series?

9. In the essay "I One Was Miss America," what is Gay's reaction after reading the sequel to the Sweet Valley High books?

10. In the essay "How to Be Friends with Another Woman," what is the first and most fundamental rule Gay states?

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