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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 Smith say has “rarely been random” in America in her essay “The American Exception”?
(a) COVID-19 cases.
(b) Presidential nominations.
(c) Untimely death.
(d) COVID-19 recoveries.

2. What image of “bored children” at home does Smith use in “The American Exception”?
(a) Crying from boredom.
(b) Twiddling their thumbs.
(c) Climbing the walls.
(d) Staring zombie like at a screen.

3. “Truly laboring people,” Smith says, have to adhere to this, to which an artist does not have to adhere?
(a) A bus schedule.
(b) A boss’s whim.
(c) A time clock.
(d) Traffic patterns.

4. What subject does Smith hear Myron discussing loudly at the end of “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule”?
(a) The craziness of white folks.
(b) How empty NYC is.
(c) COVID-19 conspiracy theories.
(d) Fran Lebowitz’s article.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What do Smith and Ben complain they have to do during the many public school days off?

4. What does Smith’s Masseur call her in “A Man With Strong Hands”?

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

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