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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. While looking on at the garden, Smith thinks of a quote by Nabokov regarding his inspiration for which novel?
(a) Lolita.
(b) Mary.
(c) Glory.
(d) Laura.

2. What former British Prime Minister does Smith reference at the end of “The American Exception”?
(a) Winston Churchill.
(b) Tony Blair.
(c) Margaret Thatcher.
(d) Neville Chamberlain.

3. In the conversation Smith overhears at a Subway shop, Smith learns that the two women conversing are more appalled by what factor, than that the child is too young for technology?
(a) That the baby held such an expensive item.
(b) That the baby was unhappy even though he had an iPad.
(c) That the iPad was not the latest version.
(d) That the mother tried to take away the iPad.

4. 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) Vaccines.
(c) Deaths.
(d) False positives.

5. What is the name of the woman Smith mentions at the start of “A Woman with a Little Dog”?
(a) Deborah.
(b) Barbara.
(c) Fran.
(d) Babs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Smith say represents England's form of the contempt virus?

2. How does Barbara say they will get through this at the end of “A Woman with a Little Dog”?

3. In what city is Smith in in her story, “An Elder at the 98 Bus Stop”?

4. At which point does Smith say a man submits to nature?

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

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