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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 is Gay's favorite cooking show?
(a) The Barefoot Contessa.
(b) Cooking With Giada.
(c) Today With Bobby Flay.
(d) Thirty Minute Meals.

2. What are doctors surprised to learn about Gay?
(a) That she is not as overweight as she looks.
(b) That she is not on many medications.
(c) That she was assaulted when she was young.
(d) That she has an eating disorder.

3. Gay grew very frustrated while trying to make which dish?
(a) Beef stew.
(b) Roast chicken.
(c) Poached pears.
(d) Ravioli.

4. What was the first tattoo that Gay got?
(a) An ancient symbol.
(b) A heart.
(c) Her lover's name.
(d) A woman with wings.

5. What kinds of clothes does Gay say she favors?
(a) Big, bright colors.
(b) Geographic patterns.
(c) Floral patterns.
(d) Dark, simple clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What baby animal does Gay include in her Twiiter bio?

2. Which reality TV weight loss show does Khloe Kardashian host?

3. Why does Gay have two wardrobes?

4. What word does Gay object to that is commonly used to refer to the national spike in obesity?

5. What is one specific diet Gay mentions that her father gifts her to try?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the difference between Gay’s two wardrobes?

2. How does Gay’s family reestablish contact with her after she moves to the west coast?

3. How does Gay characterize her relationship with Jon?

4. What does Gay think about the reality television show The Biggest Loser?

5. How does Gay feel about exercise?

6. As Gay is finishing her MA program in creative writing, what are most of the fictional stories she writes about?

7. What kind of a job does Gay have while she is living in Phoenix?

8. In the period of Gay’s life when she drops out of Yale, why does she feel free?

9. Why does Gay say she is envious of anorexic girls even though she knows they are also struggling terribly?

10. What type of eating disorder did Gay struggle with in addition to her compulsive overeating?

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