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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 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) Ideology.
(b) Hate crime.
(c) Heinous.
(d) Murder.

2. How does Smith inform other people about the intriguing sign she saw in the park?
(a) She texts some friends.
(b) She posts a picture of the sign holder on Instagram.
(c) She tells her colleagues when she gets to school.
(d) She posts the text from the sign on Facebook.

3. What song does Smith reflect on how the lyrics would change if it were written for a man?
(a) Just Like A Woman.
(b) I Am Woman.
(c) Girls Just Want To Have Fun.
(d) (You Make Me Feel) Like a Natural Woman.

4. What is something a professor has that Smith says an IT person does not have at the end of “A Hovering Young Man”?
(a) An honest job.
(b) A difficult job.
(c) A good salary.
(d) Tenure.

5. In “Suffering Like Mel Gibson” Smith says that class can alter what?
(a) Your conception of reality.
(b) Your taste in clothes.
(c) Your level of empathy.
(d) The number of cars you own.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the final short essay in “Screengrabs”?

2. What is the term Smith says reflects her resistance to the nature of her gender?

3. As Smith stares into the garden of peonies near two other women her age, Smiths comments of what “gaudy symbol,” the flowers represent, “in the middle of a barren concrete metropolis” (3)?

4. What name does Smith say would better suit the writing department in which she works at the University in “Peonies”?

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

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