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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “An Elder at the 98 Bus Stop,” “A Provocation in the Park,” “Post-script: Contempt as a Virus” .

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Nabokov said the inspiration for his novel came from an article about an ape that drew what?
(a) His captors.
(b) His self-portrait.
(c) Bananas.
(d) His own cage.

3. What two things does Smith say share in common their ability to distort one’s vision?
(a) Suffering and Endurance.
(b) Privilege and disease.
(c) Suffering and starvation.
(d) Privilege and suffering.

4. What type of self-hate does Smith say is a sign of mental illness?
(a) Disproportionate.
(b) Passionate.
(c) Body type.
(d) Ethno-Racial.

5. What term does Smith question, which the media uses in regards to some crimes, such as when a man kills an innocent group of people in a church?
(a) Murder.
(b) Heinous.
(c) Hate crime.
(d) Ideology.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Suffering Like Mel Gibson,” Smith says that suffering “is not relative; it is” (34) what?

2. In what city does Smith live at the start of “Peonies”?

3. Smith says that when it comes to certain crimes, we only wonder later if it has something to do with a feeling of hopeless what on the part of the criminal?

4. What is the setting at the start of “Peonies”?

5. Smith describes the “Ideal, rent-controlled city dweller” who “creates community” without ever using what word?

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