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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. 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)?
(a) Opportunity.
(b) Holiness.
(c) Fertility.
(d) Sadness.

2. Which type of person does Smith describe as being shuffled “from one isolation to another and back again” (30)?
(a) Cheating spouses.
(b) Children of divorced parents.
(c) Essential workers.
(d) Doctors.

3. 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) Girls Just Want To Have Fun.
(d) Just Like A Woman.

4. What former British Prime Minister does Smith reference at the end of “The American Exception”?
(a) Margaret Thatcher.
(b) Tony Blair.
(c) Neville Chamberlain.
(d) Winston Churchill.

5. What two things does Smith say share in common their ability to distort one’s vision?
(a) Privilege and disease.
(b) Privilege and suffering.
(c) Suffering and Endurance.
(d) Suffering and starvation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Trump say we did not have prior to the pandemic, which Smith agrees?

2. What is different about the nail salon Smith describes in “A Man with Strong Hands” compared to others in her area?

3. What does Smith liken Trump’s speech to after coming to her senses after the first part of his speech?

4. What image of “bored children” at home does Smith use in “The American Exception”?

5. “Truly laboring people,” Smith says, have to adhere to this, to which an artist does not have to adhere?

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