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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 is one thing Smith and Ben have in common?
(a) They have flexible schedules.
(b) They work at nail salons.
(c) They are writers.
(d) They are parents.

2. What does Smith say she believes would probably happen to her on the first hour of the first day of the apocalypse?
(a) She would have mapped out a survival plan.
(b) She would write a story about it.
(c) She would die.
(d) She would take a nap.

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

4. Which type of person does Smith say was overjoyed with the new free time at the start of the pandemic?
(a) Children of artists.
(b) Artists with children.
(c) Artists without children.
(d) People living alone in city apartments.

5. Which philosopher does Smith cite when discussing the difference between the thinker and his real life?
(a) Kierkagaard.
(b) Plato.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Socrates.

Short Answer Questions

1. The day Smith looked at the peonies in the Jefferson Market Garden was just a few days before what Smith refers to as what?

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

3. What does Smith say she believed to be the “cage of her circumstance” (3) when she was younger?

4. As Smith stares into the garden of peonies near two other women her age, Smiths comments of what “gaudy symbol,” the flowers represent, “in the middle of a barren concrete metropolis” (3)?

5. What is the name of the homeless man Smith sees I at the ATM in “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule”?

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