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. 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?
(a) Isolation.
(b) Nosiness.
(c) Privilege.
(d) Hearing problems.

2. What is the name of the elderly woman's dog referenced in “A Woman with a Little Dog”?
(a) Fido.
(b) Beck.
(c) Barky.
(d) Spot.

3. What term does Smith question, which the media uses in regards to some crimes, such as when a man kills an innocent group of people in a church?
(a) Ideology.
(b) Heinous.
(c) Murder.
(d) Hate crime.

4. What type of self-hate does Smith say is a sign of mental illness?
(a) Passionate.
(b) Disproportionate.
(c) Ethno-Racial.
(d) Body type.

5. In “The American Exception,” Smith says that Americans attacked death as a series of what?
(a) Discrete problems.
(b) Bad decisions.
(c) Mysteries.
(d) Unfortunate events.

Short Answer Questions

1. Smith compares the contempt on Dominc’s face during a press conference about the pandemic to the contempt of the American officer’s face while doing what?

2. What is the setting at the start of “Peonies”?

3. Whose quote about style does Smith say she always uses for her classes?

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. 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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