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

2. In "To Scratch, Claw, or Grope Clumsily or Frantically," what game is Gay playing and referring to?
(a) Uno.
(b) Scrabble.
(c) Poker.
(d) Tennis.

3. In the essay "Not Here to Make Friends," what book is the character Sara Levine obsessed with?
(a) Catcher in the Rye.
(b) Treasure Island.
(c) Pride and Prejudice.
(d) Little Women.

4. In the essay "Garish, Glorious Spectacles," who is noted as the main character in the novel Play It as It Lays?
(a) Maria.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Jenny.
(d) Ruth.

5. In her essay "The Trouble with Prince Charming," who is the female protagonist who gets swept off her feet by the handsome Christian Grey?
(a) Kim.
(b) Anastasia (or Ana).
(c) Kate.
(d) Jennifer.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the essay "Not Here to Make Friends," what does Gay think about the question of likeability even existing in literary conversations?

2. In the essay "Some Jokes Are Funnier Than Others," what major event were the children watching in their science classroom?

3. According to the essay "How to Be Friends width Another Woman," who should a woman never date or become romantically involved?

4. In the essay "Beyond the Measure of Men," what is the ambiguous term that refers to untrue stories written by women?

5. What is the name of the contemporary artist that Gay references in the essay "The Smooth Surfaces of Idyll"?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Gay reflects on the book by Jennifer Pozner in her essay "Garish, Glorious Spectacles," how does she say women are portrayed in reality television?

2. In the essay "The Illusion of Safety," what is the purpose of listing all the detailed visceral reactions at the beginning?

3. In the essay "Peculiar Benefits," what does Gay say is most important to do when it comes to privilege?

4. IIn the essay "Beyond the Measure of Men," what does Gay say about female writers and the aspects of publishing over which they have control?

5. According the essay "Reaching for Catharsis," what is a major benefit that a "fat" person has in terms of emotionally healing?

6. In the essay "How to Be Friends with Another Woman," what is the first and most fundamental rule Gay states?

7. In "Feel Me. See Me. Hear Me. Reach Me," what does the narrator wish that BET did more of via its television shows?

8. In the essay "The Trouble with Prince Charming, or He Who Trespassed Against Us," what does Gay suggest that the Fifty Grades series is, at its core?

9. In the essay "Dear Young Ladies Who Love Chris Brown," what does Gay predict will happen to his behavior?

10. Accordingly to the essay "A Tale of Three Coming Out Stories," how do people react when a celebrity comes out as gay?

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