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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “A Woman With a Little Dog,” “A Hovering Young Man”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Despite a pandemic’s ability to discriminate, says Smith, the structure of American hierarchy meant that which groups experience higher death rates?
(a) Asians and Latinos.
(b) Whites and Asians.
(c) Blacks and Latinos.
(d) Blacks and whites.

2. In “Suffering Like Mel Gibson” Smith says that class can alter what?
(a) Your level of empathy.
(b) Your conception of reality.
(c) Your taste in clothes.
(d) The number of cars you own.

3. In suffering like Mel Gibson, Smith says that prior to the pandemic people were learning about the link between privilege and what?
(a) Race.
(b) Gender.
(c) Intersectionality.
(d) Class.

4. What image of “bored children” at home does Smith use in “The American Exception”?
(a) Twiddling their thumbs.
(b) Crying from boredom.
(c) Staring zombie like at a screen.
(d) Climbing the walls.

5. What does Smith say in “Suffering Like Mel Gibson” was the only relief people quarantining together had from one another?
(a) The computer screen.
(b) Pretending to go to the bathroom.
(c) Pretending to be asleep.
(d) Hiding in a closet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Smith says that if you were to ask Barbara what she might be doing on a particular holiday, what is one possible answer she might give?

2. What does Cy often tell Smith he can help her with at the library?

3. What does Trump say we did not have prior to the pandemic, which Smith agrees?

4. What does Smith say we were in a “long, involved cultural conversation” about prior to the pandemic?

5. What is different about Jesus versus the actor speaking to him in the meme Smith saw during the pandemic?

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