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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were Gay's favorite books as a child?
(a) The Little House on the Prairie books.
(b) The Chronicles of Narnia books.
(c) The Anne of Green Gables books.
(d) The Babysitter's Club books.

2. Who comes to stay with Gay during her follow-up surgery in high school?
(a) Her best friend.
(b) Her younger brother.
(c) Her cousin.
(d) Her mother and her father.

3. Where did Gay end up enrolling in college immediately following high school?
(a) Brown University.
(b) University of Pennsylvania.
(c) Yale University.
(d) Harvard University.

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

5. Where did Gay's trauma take place?
(a) In a cabin in the woods.
(b) In a department store.
(c) In an alley.
(d) In her car.

6. How old was Gay when she started boarding school?
(a) 13 years old
(b) 16 years old.
(c) 15 years old.
(d) 10 years old.

7. How old was Gay when she experienced her life-defining trauma?
(a) 12 years old.
(b) 6 years old.
(c) 8 years old.
(d) 17 years old.

8. What kind of surgery does Gay have during her sophomore year of high school?
(a) Gallbladder removal.
(b) Appendectomy.
(c) LASIK surgery.
(d) Breast reduction surgery.

9. What city did Gay travel to in order to meet the man in his forties?
(a) New York.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Boston.

10. Which of the following is NOT a Haitian food that Gay mentions she likes?
(a) Legumes.
(b) Paella.
(c) Red rice.
(d) Fried plantains.

11. What person in Gay's family initially reached out to her after she disappeared without telling them where she was going?
(a) Her cousin.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her mother.

12. What was the name of the boarding school Gay attended?
(a) Blair.
(b) Phillips Exeter Academy.
(c) Taft.
(d) Holy Cross.

13. At her heaviest, which medical category did Gay fit into?
(a) Super obese.
(b) Super morbidly obese.
(c) Overweight.
(d) Obese.

14. What was Gay's first job after finishing her MA in Creative Writing?
(a) She was a waitress.
(b) She was an advertising executive.
(c) She was a photographer.
(d) She was a writer at the college of engineering.

15. What specific community is Gay drawn to online?
(a) Transgender.
(b) BDSM.
(c) White supremacist.
(d) Body art.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gay tell her mother she would decorate her apartment with when she grew up?

2. What book series was Gay enamored with during her boarding school years?

3. Who comes to stay with Gay after her first surgery in high school?

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

5. How many siblings does Gay have?

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