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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. How do Smith and her mother communicate during the pandemic lockdown?
(a) Video conference.
(b) Phone calls.
(c) Letter writing.
(d) Text.

2. Though Barbara is older, Smith says she is like many women in the city who do not get old in what “traditional” (48) way?
(a) Elderly.
(b) Boring.
(c) Scientific.
(d) Feminine.

3. 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) A Pandemic.
(d) Aging.

4. What is NOT one of the reasons Smith considers might be behind the sign she saw in Central Park?
(a) A desire to provoke.
(b) Part of a TV show.
(c) Informing people about Ethno-Racial Dysphoria.
(d) Mental Illness.

5. What is the name of the fourth short essay in “Screengrabs”?
(a) Hoverboards and Youth.
(b) Youthful Exuberance.
(c) A Hovering Young Man.
(d) Cy the IT guy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the young man work in “A Hovering Young Man”?

2. What is the one “indulgence” (38) Smith says that she gets regularly in “A Man With Strong Hands”?

3. Why does Smith assume the nail salon she goes to must do a good business?

4. What is the name of the elderly woman's dog referenced in “A Woman with a Little Dog”?

5. What did Smith have printed on a T-shirt when she first moved to NYC?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Smith see in the ATM vestibule and what is her relationship with him?

2. Where are Smith and her husband going while they wait to fly to London?

3. What does Smith say she learned from or appreciates about her parents and brother in “Intimations”?

4. What is Smith’s relationship like with Ben, her masseuse?

5. How does Smith describe Barbara physically?

6. What does Smith find interesting about the way in which the man with the sign projects his hate?

7. What example did Smith’s mother use when telling her via video conference that the lockdown has made people crazy?

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

9. What does Smith consider might be the reasons for the sign that read “I am a self-hating Asian. Let’s talk!” (66).

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

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