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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Parts V and VI (Chapters 63 - 88).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What career did Gay initially consider at the beginning of her first year of college?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Advertising.
(c) Music.
(d) Engineering.

2. After learning of her rape, what did Gay's father tell her she deserved?
(a) Justice.
(b) Shame.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Counseling.

3. What does Gay say writing Hunger has freed her to do?
(a) Be sad.
(b) Be vulnerable and terribly human.
(c) Be happy.
(d) Be vengeful.

4. Who caught Gay with her rapist in the woods some time before her assault?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her younger brother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her best friend.

5. Why did Gay prefer men's clothing during her twenties?
(a) It allowed her to hide her femininity.
(b) People told her she looked better in men's clothes.
(c) People were less mean to her when she worse men's clothes.
(d) Men's clothes were cheaper to buy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of game did Gay play at the Casino while a PhD student?

2. At the end of the book, how does Gay describe the new dream she is already thinking of as home?

3. What job did Gay's male partner during her PhD years do?

4. What did Gay buy for herself on her twenty-first birthday?

5. What did Gay's English teacher encourage her to do?

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