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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) Disease.
(d) Pandemics.

2. At the start of “Suffering Like Mel Gibson,” which type of person does Smith say dreamed of an “isolation within isolation” (29) at the start of the pandemic?
(a) Grandparents.
(b) Dating couples.
(c) Married couples with children.
(d) Roommates.

3. 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.

4. Who does Smith say represents England's form of the contempt virus?
(a) The Royal Family.
(b) The prime minister’s ideas man, Dominic.
(c) Queen Elizabeth.
(d) The Prime Minister.

5. At the end of “An Elder at the 98 Bus Stop,” what does Smith’s mother say lockdown is doing to people?
(a) Driving them crazy.
(b) Bringing them peace.
(c) Slowing them down.
(d) Making them lazy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Smith say is the truest, most obvious reason why people write or make art?

2. Which famous New Yorker does Smith reference in “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule” for refusing to leave New York?

3. Where is Smith at the beginning of “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule”?

4. Though Smith typically walks by sign holders in the park, what sign intrigues her in “A Provocation in the Park”?

5. Though Barbara is older, Smith says she is like many women in the city who do not get old in what “traditional” (48) way?

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