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

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 take a nap.
(c) She would write a story about it.
(d) She would die.

3. At the end of “A Hovering Young Man,” Smith insists that style is all that young people have and says that this style has been what?
(a) Meticulously perfected.
(b) Radically interrupted.
(c) Manipulated.
(d) Drastically changed.

4. Smith says that she rarely gets manicures because she can not do what at the same time?
(a) Read.
(b) Scroll through facebook.
(c) Talk on the phone.
(d) Write.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Smith say we had before the pandemic instead of death?

2. Which writer does Smith quote in her essay “Something to Do”?

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?

4. What is different about the nail salon Smith describes in “A Man with Strong Hands” compared to others in her area?

5. In “A Man With Strong Hands,” Smith’s masseur tells her that she never does what while getting a massage?

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