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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. What are the only two beauty treatments Smith gets because they either allow her to read or do not take much time?
(a) Gray hair removal and eyebrow threading.
(b) Facials and full body massages.
(c) Manicure and pedicure.
(d) Highlights and lowlights.

2. Smith says that she rarely gets manicures because she can not do what at the same time?
(a) Write.
(b) Talk on the phone.
(c) Scroll through facebook.
(d) Read.

3. What is the name of Smith’s masseur in “A Man with Strong Hands”?
(a) Jill.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Ben.
(d) Brendan.

4. Smith thinks that one reason Americans cannot fathom plagues is because they do not discriminate based on what?
(a) Zip code.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Skin color.
(d) Gender.

5. What does Smith say she believed to be the “cage of her circumstance” (3) when she was younger?
(a) Her sexual orientation.
(b) Her class.
(c) Her gender.
(d) Her race.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name does Smith say would better suit the writing department in which she works at the University in “Peonies”?

2. What is the name of the story Smith wrote that includes the homeless man she sees at the ATM?

3. Which writer does Smith quote in her essay “Something to Do”?

4. Smith refers to the space of time that artists usually occupy as a “charming but useless” what?

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

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