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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Gender & Sexuality Essays 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the essay "Girls, Girls, Girls," Gay suggests that women want a television series or move that is what?
(a) Funny.
(b) Inspiring.
(c) Romantic.
(d) Relatable.

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

3. In "Feel Me. See Me. Hear Me. Reach Me." how does Gay describe feeling at the end of graduate school?
(a) Confident.
(b) Excited.
(c) Scared.
(d) Burnt out.

4. In "Peculiar Benefits," what does Gay accuse too many people of becoming?
(a) Privilege haters.
(b) Privilege criminals.
(c) Privilege police.
(d) Privilege supporters.

5. In "Feel Me. See Me. Hear Me. Reach Me." what does Gay repeatedly think to herself when around her co-workers?
(a) Please be kind to me.
(b) Please do not hate me.
(c) Please like me.
(d) Please be my friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Girls, Girls, Girls," what is the film mentioned by Gay as an example of film revolutionizing female characters?

2. In the essay "Garish, Glorious Spectacles," what is the best word to describe the novel Green Girl?

3. In the essay "Not Here to Make Friends," what does Gay say was dead to her as a teenager?

4. What is the name of the Junot Diaz collection that Gay analyzes in "How We All Lose"?

5. In "Typical First Year Professor," what does Gay do before teaching her first class?

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