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

2. In the essay "Garish, Glorious Spectacles," who is the noted as the main character in the novel Green Girl?
(a) Maria.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Ruth.
(d) Jenny.

3. As referenced in the essay "A Tale of Three Coming Out Stories," how many out of ten LGBT teenagers report being bulled at school?
(a) Seven.
(b) Ten.
(c) Nine.
(d) Eight.

4. According to the essay "How We All Love," in what professional field does Rosin say women are acheiving success?
(a) Nursing.
(b) Pharmacy.
(c) Fashion.
(d) Education.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the essay "Dear Young Ladies Who Love Chris Brown," who is the famous musician and former girlfriend whom Chris Brown physically hit?

2. What book does Gay reference in her essay "Beyond the Measure of Men" as an example of short stories that tell the many ways men and women failure one another?

3. In the essay "Not Here to Make Friends," what popular movie does Gay reference as an example of a woman pretending in a relationship?

4. As stated in the essay "What We Hunger For," what is one of the reasons that Gay reads?

5. In the essay "The Careless Language of Sexual Violence," how many men gang-raped the 11-year-old?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the essay "Not Here to Make Friends," how does Gay define "likeability"?

2. In the essay "How We All Love," how does Gay describe Junot Diaz's writing style?

3. IIn the essay "Beyond the Measure of Men," what does Gay say about female writers and the aspects of publishing over which they have control?

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

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

6. In the essay "Reaching for Catharsis," what is Gay's primary criticism of the book, Skinny?

7. In "Typical First Year Professor," how does Gay react before teaching her first class?

8. In the essay "The Illusion of Safety," what is the purpose of listing all the detailed visceral reactions at the beginning?

9. In the essay "Beyond the Measure of Men," what happens when certain experiences are told through male narratives?

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

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