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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 kind of job did Gay do at the Prairie Schooner?
(a) Cartoonist.
(b) Editorial assistant.
(c) Editor-in-Chief.
(d) Layout designer.

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

3. Gay says her lost years began with a specific thing. What was it?
(a) Drugs.
(b) The Internet.
(c) Prostitution.
(d) Financial crisis.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Gay eventually receive her B.A. degree from?

2. Where did Gay enroll in her Creative Writing MA program?

3. What person in Gay's family initially reached out to her after she disappeared without telling them where she was going?

4. What kind of summer camp did Gay attend the summer following her sophomore year of high school?

5. What were Gay's favorite books as a child?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the author gain weight so rapidly once she went to boarding school?

2. What do you think Roxane Gay means by the phrase “The story of my body is not a story of triumph” (4)?

3. What was Gay’s impression of the information session about gastric bypass surgery?

4. Before she turned to food, what activity did Gay find comfort in as a child?

5. What advice about writing did Gay’s teacher, Mr. McGuinn, give to Gay?

6. What was Gay's relationship to food like before her rape?

7. What is Gay referring to when she says her life was split in two, “the before and the after" (14)?

8. What are some of the reasons Gay gives for not telling anyone about her rape?

9. How did Gay’s parents react to her weight gain when she came home for Thanksgiving her first year in boarding school?

10. What habit did Gay pick up at the weight-loss camp she attended in high school?

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