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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “An Elder at the 98 Bus Stop,” “A Provocation in the Park,” “Post-script: Contempt as a Virus” .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of “A Hovering Young Man,” Smith says that the “enviable style of the young is little protection against” (56) what?
(a) Catastrophe.
(b) Fraud.
(c) Aging.
(d) A Pandemic.

2. What does Cy often tell Smith he can help her with at the library?
(a) Research.
(b) Ordering books.
(c) Her IT needs.
(d) Printing.

3. Where does the young man work in “A Hovering Young Man”?
(a) Admissions office.
(b) The university library.
(c) The Registrar’s office.
(d) The university cafe.

4. 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) Asians and Latinos.
(c) Blacks and Latinos.
(d) Whites and Asians.

5. What did Barbara do when her dog died, according to Smith in “A Woman with a Little Dog”?
(a) Got a cat.
(b) Wept for weeks.
(c) Replaced him with an identical dog.
(d) Invited the neighbors to his funeral.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does Smith reference in “The American Exception” which Trump used in reference to other countries he saw as inferior?

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

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

4. In “A Man with Strong Hands” Smith admits that for Ben a public school day off can cause chaos, but for her it is what?

5. What is one of the ways in which Smith said she had tried to resist her own nature?

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