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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. Where does Barbara eat her croissant despite it being a place designated for other business?
(a) In a schoolyard.
(b) Outside a different restaurant.
(c) Inside a pub.
(d) Outside a hair salon.

2. At the start of “A Hovering Young Man,” Smith describes someone who looks enough like her to be her what?
(a) Brother.
(b) Father.
(c) Cousin.
(d) Sister.

3. What is one thing Smith says that wealthy people would not do if suffering were relative?
(a) Buy so many things.
(b) Seek therapy.
(c) Commit suicide.
(d) Work.

4. What does Trump say we did not have prior to the pandemic, which Smith agrees?
(a) Disease.
(b) Death.
(c) Quarantines.
(d) Pandemics.

5. In “Suffering Like Mel Gibson” Smith discusses an article she read about a 17-year-old who committed suicide during the pandemic for what reason?
(a) She did not have access to the internet from home.
(b) She did not get enough likes on social media.
(c) She could not see her friends.
(d) She could not stand Zoom meetings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which actor is in the director’s chair talking to Jesus in the meme someone sent Smith at the start of the pandemic?

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

3. In “The American Exception,” Smith says that the poorer countries Trump condemned did not have the foresight to be what?

4. At the start of “Suffering Like Mel Gibson,” which type of person does Smith say dreamed of an “isolation within isolation” (29) at the start of the pandemic?

5. Smith thinks that one reason Americans cannot fathom plagues is because they do not discriminate based on what?

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