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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. What is the title of the third short essay in “Screengrabs”?
(a) My Favorite Neighbor.
(b) A Man with Strong Hands.
(c) A Woman with a Little Dog.
(d) Barbara and Beck.

2. At the start of “A Hovering Young Man,” Smith describes someone who looks enough like her to be her what?
(a) Father.
(b) Cousin.
(c) Sister.
(d) Brother.

3. What is the term Smith says reflects her resistance to the nature of her gender?
(a) Internalized misanthropy.
(b) Internalized misandry.
(c) Internalized misogyny.
(d) Externalized misogyny.

4. Smith refers to the space of time that artists usually occupy as a “charming but useless” what?
(a) Playground.
(b) Existence.
(c) Reality.
(d) Playpen.

5. What part of New York is Smith surprised to find empty in “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule”?
(a) Times Square.
(b) Rockefeller Center.
(c) Broadway.
(d) Central Park.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does Smith reference in “The American Exception” which Trump used in reference to other countries he saw as inferior?

2. What is the setting at the start of “Peonies”?

3. What is the name of Smith’s masseur in “A Man with Strong Hands”?

4. In “The American Exception,” Smith says that the poorer countries Trump condemned did not have the foresight to be what?

5. 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?

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