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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. What type of establishment is described at the start of “A Man with Strong Hands”?
(a) A movie theater.
(b) A restaurant.
(c) A pub.
(d) A nail salon.

2. 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.

3. What does the woman at the bus stop tell Smith she wants her doctor to do about her health issue in question?
(a) Slow it down.
(b) Ease the symptoms.
(c) Bring it on.
(d) Make it stop.

4. Whose quote about style does Smith say she always uses for her classes?
(a) Solomon.
(b) Sontag.
(c) Silver.
(d) Moshfegh.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Smith getting cash at the start of “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule”?

2. What is one thing Smith and Ben have in common?

3. What is the name of the young man Smith describes in “A Hovering Young Man”?

4. What is the name of the second short essay of “Screengrabs”?

5. From who does Smith say she learned “solidarity” (88)?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Smith say, despite her issues with institutions, that she is glad Cy is connected to one?

2. Why is Smith going to the ATM in “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule”?

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

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

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

6. Which famous New Yorker did Smith read about at the start of the pandemic and reference in “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule”?

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

8. What does Smith say about her husband Nick in Intimations: Debts and Lessons”?

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

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

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