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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 does Trump say we did not have prior to the pandemic, which Smith agrees?
(a) Pandemics.
(b) Quarantines.
(c) Disease.
(d) Death.

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

3. What is the topic of conversation Smith overhears between two woman at a Subway shop in “Suffering Like Mel Gibson”?
(a) Higher Education.
(b) Technology and children.
(c) The economy.
(d) Feminism.

4. What does Smith say is the truest, most obvious reason why people write or make art?
(a) Because they cannot get a real job.
(b) Because it is something to do.
(c) Because they have no other skills.
(d) Because they cannot live without creating art.

5. What does Smith say we had before the pandemic instead of death?
(a) Immortality.
(b) The flu.
(c) Universal healthcare.
(d) Casualties and victims.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the first short essay in “Screengrabs”?

2. What does Smith say has “rarely been random” in America in her essay “The American Exception”?

3. What two things does Smith say share in common their ability to distort one’s vision?

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

5. Smith thinks that one reason Americans cannot fathom plagues is because they do not discriminate based on what?

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