Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Gay, Roxane
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 123 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Gay, Roxane
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 123 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which article of clothing did Gay most prefer as a young child?

2. What did Gay buy for herself on her twenty-first birthday?

3. Where did Gay enroll for her PhD program in creative writing?

4. Who comes to stay with Gay after her first surgery in high school?

5. What city did Gay travel to with the man in his forties right after they left San Francisco?

Short Essay Questions

1. What relationship did Gay have with the boy who raped her?

2. Where did Gay's rape take place, and how does she reference the location throughout the rest of the book in how she refers to herself?

3. How does Gay feel about the use of BMI (body mass index) measurements?

4. What are some of the reasons Gay gives explaining why Hunger was a difficult book for her to write?

5. Why did Gay like the idea of going to boarding school when she was 13?

6. How did the boys who raped Gay treat her afterwards?

7. What prompts Gay to drop out of Yale and move across the country?

8. What was Gay's relationship to food like before her rape?

9. How does Gay describe Haitian attitudes toward gluttony?

10. What advice about writing did Gay’s teacher, Mr. McGuinn, give to Gay?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Gay choose to use the word “fat” to describe herself rather than terms like “overweight” or “heavy”? Use specific examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Gay writes, “I do not require the affirmation of strangers" and says she views these types of comments as "the expression of the fear of unruly bodies” (165). Write an essay detailing Gay’s feelings about the “encouragement” strangers sometimes offer about her body.

Essay Topic 3

Gay writes about the interplay between obesity and gender, declaring “My fat body empowers people to erase my gender” (256). Write an essay analyzing what she means by this, using specific example from her experiences.

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