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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 is one thing Gay demands from an organization paying for her travel for work purposes?
2. How old is Gay at the time she writes Hunger?
3. What did Gay tell her parents when they tracked her down after she disappeared from Yale?
4. What word does Gay object to that is commonly used to refer to the national spike in obesity?
5. Where was Gay's first teaching job following her PhD program?
Short Essay Questions
1. What medical reason does Gay say is responsible for contestants on shows like The Biggest Loser gaining most of their weight back?
2. What are some of Gay’s challenges with air travel?
3. What significance did letting her best friend paint her thumbnail have for Gay?
4. How does Gay feel about exercise?
5. Why does Gay say she is envious of anorexic girls even though she knows they are also struggling terribly?
6. How does Gay’s family reestablish contact with her after she moves to the west coast?
7. Why does Gay do extensive research on restaurants before she goes out to eat?
8. As Gay is finishing her MA program in creative writing, what are most of the fictional stories she writes about?
9. What is the reason Gay gives for becoming a vegetarian?
10. What does Gay like about getting tattoos?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Hunger, a memoir, is told entirely from its author’s (first-person) viewpoint. Write an essay analyzing the effect this viewpoint has on the reader in reinforcing the author’s arguments and critiques.
Essay Topic 3
There are many public places that produce anxiety for Gay, who explains “There are very few spaces where bodies like mine fit” (202). Write an essay giving specific examples from the text about some of these spaces and explain how Gay reacts to their challenges.
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