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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. 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.

2. At the end of “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule,” Myron says that everyone is afraid of a cold when all they need to do is what?
(a) Wash their hands.
(b) Take vitamins.
(c) Social distance.
(d) Quarantine.

3. How old is the woman who approached Smith at the bus stop?
(a) 68.
(b) 79.
(c) 48.
(d) 58.

4. Smith refers to the space of time that artists usually occupy as a “charming but useless” what?
(a) Existence.
(b) Playground.
(c) Reality.
(d) Playpen.

5. What is the name of the final short essay in “Screengrabs”?
(a) Immune to the Herd.
(b) Post-script: Contempt as a Virus.
(c) Post-Script: Gaining herd immunity.
(d) The virus of contempt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What date was the speech Smith references at the start of “The American Exception”?

2. In what part of New York does “A Provocation in the Park” begin?

3. The quote Smith shares with her class about style states that style is a means of what?

4. Myron accuses people of believing everything they hear on the news and not being about to do what for themselves?

5. What does Smith say we were in a “long, involved cultural conversation” about prior to the pandemic?

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