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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 one of Barbara’s habits in “A Woman with a Little Dog”?
(a) Nail biting.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Smoking.
(d) Swearing.

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

3. In “Suffering Like Mel Gibson” Smith says that class can alter what?
(a) Your taste in clothes.
(b) The number of cars you own.
(c) Your level of empathy.
(d) Your conception of reality.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Smith always worried that she would not do well in an apocalypse because she lacks what?

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

3. Despite Barbara insisting her dog is well-behaved, Smith says the dog does what to everyone who walks by?

4. What is one of the social issues Smith said that pandemic forced many to have to face in her essay “Something to Do”?

5. Where is Smith at the beginning of “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule”?

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