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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. Smith thinks of the quote she shares with her class about style one day when Cy comes near her on his what?
(a) Skateboard.
(b) Hoverboard.
(c) Motorcycle.
(d) Roller skates.

2. Smith says that despite America’s feelings of being untouchable, as the pandemic progressed, what did America appear to lead the world in?
(a) Unity.
(b) False positives.
(c) Vaccines.
(d) Deaths.

3. In “The American Exception,” Smith says that Americans attacked death as a series of what?
(a) Discrete problems.
(b) Mysteries.
(c) Unfortunate events.
(d) Bad decisions.

4. What does Smith say “demanded a new dawn” (11)?
(a) Americans.
(b) Women.
(c) Night.
(d) Disaster.

5. What does Smith liken Trump’s speech to after coming to her senses after the first part of his speech?
(a) Rotten apples.
(b) Snake oil.
(c) Poison.
(d) White lies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Smith say in “Suffering Like Mel Gibson” was the only relief people quarantining together had from one another?

2. What image of “bored children” at home does Smith use in “The American Exception”?

3. What term does Smith reference in “The American Exception” which Trump used in reference to other countries he saw as inferior?

4. In the conversation Smith overhears at a Subway shop, the two women discuss seeing a baby holding what item?

5. Smith describes the young man at the start of “A Hovering Young Man” as a typical what?

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