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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 first short essay in “Screengrabs”?
(a) A Writer’s Life.
(b) My Masseuse.
(c) Ben.
(d) A Man with Strong Hands.

2. Who did people “thank God for” (16) after the pandemic when, Smith says, they were not seen as worthy of a $15/ hour minimum wage prior to the pandemic?
(a) Essential Workers.
(b) Bartenders.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Doctors.

3. Despite a pandemic’s ability to discriminate, says Smith, the structure of American hierarchy meant that which groups experience higher death rates?
(a) Blacks and whites.
(b) Whites and Asians.
(c) Asians and Latinos.
(d) Blacks and Latinos.

4. Smith always worried that she would not do well in an apocalypse because she lacks what?
(a) Common sense.
(b) Fear.
(c) Survival instincts and a will to survive.
(d) Money.

5. What is the name of Smith’s masseur in “A Man with Strong Hands”?
(a) Brendan.
(b) Ben.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Jill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What “obsession” (6) does Smith liken to her resistance to nature as a youth, an obsessions she says many writers share?

2. In “A Man With Strong Hands,” Smith’s masseur tells her that she never does what while getting a massage?

3. In the conversation Smith overhears at a Subway shop, the two women discuss seeing a baby holding what item?

4. 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?

5. In “Something to Do,” Smith says that without love life can seem what?

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