This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Typical First Year Professor" and "To Scratch, Claw, or Grope Clumsily or Frantically".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Peculiar Benefits," what two things does Gay cite as being a pain?
(a) Being white and being a woman.
(b) Being black and being young.
(c) Being young and being a a woman.
(d) Being black and being a woman.

2. Approximately how old is the narrator in "Typical First Year Professor"?
(a) In her late twenties.
(b) In her thirties.
(c) In her forties.
(d) In her fifties.

3. What does Gay bring to one of her first classes to intrigue the students in "Typical First Year Professor"?
(a) Music.
(b) Legos.
(c) Pizza.
(d) Chocolate.

4. In "To Scratch, Claw, or Grope Clumsily or Frantically," what is the name of Gay's Scrabble sensei?
(a) Martin.
(b) Roger.
(c) Marty.
(d) Fred.

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 be my friend.
(c) Please like me.
(d) Please do not hate me.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In "Feel Me. See Me. Hear Me. Reach Me." how does Gay describe feeling at the end of graduate school?

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

4. In the essay To Scratch, Claw, or Grope Clumsily or Frantically, what does Gay say you cannot do at a Scrabble tournament?

5. In "Peculiar Benefits," what does Gay accuse too many people of becoming?

(see the answer key)

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