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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. How does Barbara say they will get through this at the end of “A Woman with a Little Dog”?
(a) By the grace of God.
(b) In Time.
(c) Alone.
(d) Together.

2. What song does Smith reflect on how the lyrics would change if it were written for a man?
(a) I Am Woman.
(b) (You Make Me Feel) Like a Natural Woman.
(c) Just Like A Woman.
(d) Girls Just Want To Have Fun.

3. Though private interests play a role in the lives of many Americans, what private interest does Smith say should not be one of them?
(a) Social security.
(b) Education.
(c) Healthcare.
(d) The Postal system.

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

5. Smith says that she rarely gets manicures because she can not do what at the same time?
(a) Scroll through facebook.
(b) Talk on the phone.
(c) Write.
(d) Read.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are Smith and husband planing to fly to as soon as they are able in “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule”?

2. In “Suffering Like Mel Gibson” Smith says that class can alter what?

3. The quote Smith shares with her class about style states that style is a means of what?

4. Who were the few people, according to Smith, who did not have to “seek out something to do” during the pandemic?

5. As Smith stares into the garden of peonies near two other women her age, Smiths comments of what “gaudy symbol,” the flowers represent, “in the middle of a barren concrete metropolis” (3)?

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