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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Screengrabs,” “A Man with Strong Hands,” “A Character in a Wheelchair in a Vestibule.” .

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Though private interests play a role in the lives of many Americans, what private interest does Smith say should not be one of them?
(a) Healthcare.
(b) Education.
(c) Social security.
(d) The Postal system.

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

4. Which type of person does Smith describe as being shuffled “from one isolation to another and back again” (30)?
(a) Doctors.
(b) Cheating spouses.
(c) Children of divorced parents.
(d) Essential workers.

5. What event has triggered Smith and her husband to leave New York City in “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule”?
(a) Global pandemic.
(b) They lost their jobs.
(c) World War.
(d) Civil unrest.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In suffering like Mel Gibson, Smith says that prior to the pandemic people were learning about the link between privilege and what?

3. What is one of the ways in which Smith said she had tried to resist her own nature?

4. What does Smith say writers often write about at some point in their careers at the start of “Something to Do”?

5. What does Smith say she believes would probably happen to her on the first hour of the first day of the apocalypse?

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