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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. In “Suffering Like Mel Gibson” Smith discusses an article she read about a 17-year-old who committed suicide during the pandemic for what reason?
(a) She could not see her friends.
(b) She did not get enough likes on social media.
(c) She did not have access to the internet from home.
(d) She could not stand Zoom meetings.

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?
(a) That the iPad was not the latest version.
(b) That the baby held such an expensive item.
(c) That the mother tried to take away the iPad.
(d) That the baby was unhappy even though he had an iPad.

3. In “The American Exception,” Smith says that nobody in 1945 wanted to go back to 1939 unless it was to do what?
(a) Resurrect the dead.
(b) Be younger.
(c) Change the course of history.
(d) Vote for a different leader.

4. In “Suffering Like Mel Gibson,” Smith says that suffering “is not relative; it is” (34) what?
(a) Necessary.
(b) Absolute.
(c) Imaginary.
(d) A waste of time.

5. What phrase does Smith use to describes Cy’s style in “A Hovering Young Man”?
(a) Youthful ignorance.
(b) Youthful exuberance.
(c) Young eccentricity.
(d) Childish foolishness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Smith say she believes would probably happen to her on the first hour of the first day of the apocalypse?

2. What subject does Smith hear Myron discussing loudly at the end of “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule”?

3. What is the name of the second short essay of “Screengrabs”?

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

5. Which actor is in the director’s chair talking to Jesus in the meme someone sent Smith at the start of the pandemic?

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