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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. 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) Social distance.
(c) Take vitamins.
(d) Quarantine.

2. How does Smith describe the clientele of the nail salon she frequents?
(a) Upscale and well-mannered.
(b) Loud and impolite.
(c) Snobby.
(d) Low-class and rude.

3. Smith describes the “Ideal, rent-controlled city dweller” who “creates community” without ever using what word?
(a) Creation.
(b) Neighborhood.
(c) Swears.
(d) Community.

4. Where is Smith’s friend’s cottage, which they are heading to in “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule”?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) Utah.
(c) Vermont.
(d) Kerhonkson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of New York is Smith surprised to find empty in “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule”?

2. From whom does Smith say she learned a “readiness to admit failure and weakness” (85)?

3. What is Smith exiting when approached by an unfamiliar woman in “An Elder at the 98 Bus Stop”?

4. The man holding the sign in Washington Square Park emailed the university telling them about his condition, which he called?

5. How old is the woman who approached Smith at the bus stop?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Smith admit is different between how public school closings impact Ben versus how they impact her family?

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

3. What does Smith thank Carol for in “Intimations: Debts and Lessons”?

4. Why does Smith rarely get manicures and never get pedicures?

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

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

7. Who is Barbara from “A Woman with a Little Dog”?

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

9. How does Smith describe the concept of British “class contempt” (74) in “Post-script: Contempt as a Virus”?

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

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