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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the essay "Garish, Glorious Spectacles," what do women on reality television shows rarely demonstrate?

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

3. According to the essay "How We All Love," in what professional field does Rosin say women are acheiving success?

4. What is the name of the Junot Diaz collection that Gay analyzes in "How We All Lose"?

5. In the essay "Garish, Glorious Spectacles," who is the noted as the main character in the novel Green Girl?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Feel Me. See Me. Hear Me. Reach Me," what does the narrator wish that BET did more of via its television shows?

2. In "To Scratch, Claw, or Grope Clumsily or Frantically," how does Gay beat her nemesis the first time?

3. In the essay "How We All Lose," what is Gay's main criticism of Rosin's book The End of Men?

4. In the essay "Blurred Lines, Indeed," what does Gay admit to hating?

5. In the essay "A Tale of Three Coming Out Stories," what does Gay say that people like, in this information age?

6. In the essay "Girls, Girls, Girls," why does Gay fall so hard for the television show "Girlfriends"?

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

8. 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?

9. In the essay "What We Hunger For," why is Gay afraid to say no to her boyfriend?

10. In the essay "Peculiar Benefits," what is the main lesson Gay learns while in Haiti?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay explaining the author's perspective on "likability" as it relates to women and feminism. Include examples from the text that best support this concept.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay explaining how the author establishes narrative reliability and the impact it has on the reader. What specific techniques and narrative decisions does she make in an effort to be reliable?

Essay Topic 3

Most of the essays entail both personal experience and external evidence. Write an essay analyzing the author's choices to balance personal and societal information in the collection. How does her inclusion of both affect the narrative tone?

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