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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. What did Gay buy for herself on her twenty-first birthday?
2. What would Gay's mother add to the water when she was washing meat or vegetables?
3. What religion was Gay's family?
4. What did Gay's English teacher encourage her to do?
5. What term does Gay prefer to use to refer to herself in the aftermath of the trauma she experienced?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Gay's relationship to food like before her rape?
2. What is Gay referring to when she says her life was split in two, “the before and the after" (14)?
3. Why did the author gain weight so rapidly once she went to boarding school?
4. What are some of the reasons Gay gives explaining why Hunger was a difficult book for her to write?
5. What does Gay mean when she says her body is a cage?
6. Why does Gay say that gaining so much weight made her feel safer?
7. What was the most important thing that Mr. McGuinn did for Gay?
8. What do you think Roxane Gay means by the phrase “The story of my body is not a story of triumph” (4)?
9. Why did Gay like the idea of going to boarding school when she was 13?
10. What habit did Gay pick up at the weight-loss camp she attended in high school?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Gay uses the idea of “accretion” to help explain both how she gained so much weight and her lifelong struggle with loneliness. Write an essay analyzing the meaning of “accretion” as it relates to these two specific problems in the author’s life, using specific examples from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Gay describes her body as a cage “of my own making” and says she has been trying to figure a way out of it for 20 years (19). Write an essay detailing what she means by this and provide examples of how she feels imprisoned or limited by her body.
Essay Topic 3
Gay does not tell her family about her brutal rape at the age of 12 for many years, and even when she does reveal the truth, she can not discuss it directly with them. Write an essay detailing why Gay found it so difficult to tell her family about her trauma, citing specific examples from the text.
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