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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Race & Entertainment Essays 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the essay "How We All Lose," what does Gay say we need to overcome?
(a) Our resistance to nuance.
(b) Our resistance to diversity.
(c) Our resistance to love.
(d) Our resistance to compassion.

2. According to the essay "To Scratch, Claw, or Grope Clumsily or Frantically," how many possible Scrabble words exist in "completely"?
(a) 200.
(b) 227.
(c) 235.
(d) 207.

3. In "Typical First Year Professor," what holiday does the narrator reference in her comparison of teaching to a child sitting at an adult dinner table?
(a) Christmas.
(b) Halloween.
(c) Easter.
(d) Thanksgiving.

4. In the essay "Beyond the Measure of Men," what is the ambiguous term that refers to untrue stories written by women?
(a) Women's fallacies.
(b) False fiction.
(c) Women's nonfiction.
(d) Women's fiction.

5. In the essay "Beyond the Measure of Men," what two authors wrote novels that are classified as "women's fiction"?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
(b) John Updike and Ernest Hemingway.
(c) John Updike and Richard Yates.
(d) Ernest Hemingway and Richard Yates.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the essay "Dear Young Ladies Who Love Chris Brown," who is the famous musician and former girlfriend whom Chris Brown physically hit?

2. In "Typical First Year Professor," what does the narrator compare compiling her professional portfolio to?

3. In the essay "Reaching for Catharsis," how many pounds overweight is the main character of the novel Skinny?

4. What does the artist referenced in the essay "The Smooth Surfaces of Idyll" imbue his art with?

5. In the essay "Surviving Django," where does Gay say she was born?

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