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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. Where did Gay enroll in her Creative Writing MA program?
(a) Michigan State University.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Brown University.
(d) University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

2. Which book series did Gay become obsessed with after her trauma?
(a) Encyclopedia Brown.
(b) Sweet Valley High.
(c) Nancy Drew.
(d) Harry Potter.

3. What was the first production Gay ever worked on in high school?
(a) Only You.
(b) Little Shop of Horrors.
(c) Les Miserables.
(d) Oklahoma.

4. What name does Gay give to her imaginary boyfriend?
(a) Mr. Z.
(b) Mr. X.
(c) Jason.
(d) Nathan.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What city did Gay travel to in order to meet the man in his forties?

3. Who was one of Gay's influential English teachers?

4. What kind of job did Gay do at the Prairie Schooner?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Gay say that gaining so much weight made her feel safer?

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

3. Why did Gay like the idea of going to boarding school when she was 13?

4. What activity did Gay enjoy in high school that helped her forget her pain?

5. Where did Gay's rape take place, and how does she reference the location throughout the rest of the book in how she refers to herself?

6. What prompts Gay to drop out of Yale and move across the country?

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

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

9. What does Gay mean when she says her body is a cage?

10. What was the most important thing that Mr. McGuinn did for Gay?

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