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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 is one of the social issues Smith said that pandemic forced many to have to face in her essay “Something to Do”?
(a) Low minimum wage.
(b) Bad marriages.
(c) Lack of sick leave.
(d) Unloving parents.

2. What does Smith say we were in a “long, involved cultural conversation” about prior to the pandemic?
(a) Gender inequality.
(b) Universal Healthcare.
(c) Free public universities.
(d) Privilege.

3. In “The American Exception,” Smith says that nobody in 1945 wanted to go back to 1939 unless it was to do what?
(a) Be younger.
(b) Vote for a different leader.
(c) Change the course of history.
(d) Resurrect the dead.

4. What does the woman in “An Elder at the 98 Bus Stop” tell Smith she is going to the doctor’s to discuss?
(a) Healthy eating.
(b) Osteoporosis.
(c) Cholesterol.
(d) Menopause.

5. What type of person does Smith say has created some of the most powerful art she has seen?
(a) People who constantly strive for perfection.
(b) People who endlessly engage with their subjects.
(c) People who have no contact with the outside world.
(d) People who feel completely alone in the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cy often tell Smith he can help her with at the library?

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

3. How often does Smith get a massage at the nail salon?

4. The moment Smith realized that she had misunderstood the conversation between the women in the Subway shop was the moment Smith says she became aware of her what?

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

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