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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “A Woman With a Little Dog,” “A Hovering Young Man”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Smith describes the “Ideal, rent-controlled city dweller” who “creates community” without ever using what word?
(a) Neighborhood.
(b) Community.
(c) Creation.
(d) Swears.

2. What name does Smith say would better suit the writing department in which she works at the University in “Peonies”?
(a) The Experiential Experience Department.
(b) The Controlling Experience Department.
(c) The Mind Control Department.
(d) The Controlling Educator Department.

3. What “obsession” (6) does Smith liken to her resistance to nature as a youth, an obsessions she says many writers share?
(a) Control.
(b) Chaos.
(c) Order.
(d) Materialism.

4. In what city does Smith live at the start of “Peonies”?
(a) New York.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Brooklyn.

5. What does Smith say a man can bend to his will?
(a) Steel pipes.
(b) Nature.
(c) Religion.
(d) Rules.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the young man Smith describes in “A Hovering Young Man”?

2. In “The American Exception,” Smith says that nobody in 1945 wanted to go back to 1939 unless it was to do what?

3. In suffering like Mel Gibson, Smith says that prior to the pandemic people were learning about the link between privilege and what?

4. Where does the young man work in “A Hovering Young Man”?

5. Smith thinks of the quote she shares with her class about style one day when Cy comes near her on his what?

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