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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Smith note about the hate from the man holding the sign in Washington Square Park?
(a) It does not discriminate.
(b) It is pointed outward.
(c) It is not violent.
(d) It is pointed inward.

3. How does Smith inform other people about the intriguing sign she saw in the park?
(a) She posts a picture of the sign holder on Instagram.
(b) She texts some friends.
(c) She posts the text from the sign on Facebook.
(d) She tells her colleagues when she gets to school.

4. Who taught Smith “to have one layer of skin less than the others, and therefore to feel it all” (92)?
(a) Pablo.
(b) Zora Neal Hurston.
(c) Zulfi.
(d) Carol.

5. What is written on the sign Smith first describes in “A Provocation in the Park”?
(a) Free Hugs.
(b) Ask me why I’m here.
(c) Talk to Me.
(d) Backpackers welcome.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event has triggered Smith and her husband to leave New York City in “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule”?

2. In what city is Smith in in her story, “An Elder at the 98 Bus Stop”?

3. Smith says that when it comes to certain crimes, we only wonder later if it has something to do with a feeling of hopeless what on the part of the criminal?

4. Who taught Smith “the importance of finding your own language” (90)?

5. Smith says that if the people of England are listened to, it is solely for what purpose?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Smith know the woman at the bus stop who approaches her must have known her from long ago?

2. How does Smith describe Barbara physically?

3. How does Smith show that others in her building are leaving the city as well?

4. What does Smith tell her students about style each semester?

5. How does Smith show that when she went to the ATM in the first story in “Screengrabs” it was early on in the pandemic?

6. What does Barbara say to Smith just before she is heading her rental car to leave the city?

7. What does Smith say about the “ideal, rent-controlled city dweller” (49)?

8. What are the two beauty treatments Smith will get and why?

9. How does Smith describe Cy at the beginning of “A Hovering Young Man”?

10. What does the man with the sign say in his email to the entire university community?

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