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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 old is the woman who approached Smith at the bus stop?
(a) 68.
(b) 48.
(c) 58.
(d) 79.
2. Where does Barbara eat her croissant despite it being a place designated for other business?
(a) Outside a different restaurant.
(b) Inside a pub.
(c) Outside a hair salon.
(d) In a schoolyard.
3. What is one of Barbara’s habits in “A Woman with a Little Dog”?
(a) Smoking.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Nail biting.
(d) Swearing.
4. What is the title of the sixth short essay in Smith’s “Screengrabs”?
(a) Panic in the Park.
(b) A Provocation in the Park.
(c) A Pandemic Provocation.
(d) Ethno-Racial Dysphoria.
5. At the end of “A Hovering Young Man,” Smith insists that style is all that young people have and says that this style has been what?
(a) Manipulated.
(b) Radically interrupted.
(c) Drastically changed.
(d) Meticulously perfected.
Short Answer Questions
1. Smith describes the “Ideal, rent-controlled city dweller” who “creates community” without ever using what word?
2. At the end of “An Elder at the 98 Bus Stop,” what does Smith’s mother say lockdown is doing to people?
3. From whom does Smith say she learned a “readiness to admit failure and weakness” (85)?
4. Who taught Smith “the importance of finding your own language” (90)?
5. How often does Smith get a massage at the nail salon?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Smith’s relationship like with Ben, her masseuse?
2. Who is Barbara from “A Woman with a Little Dog”?
3. Why does Smith say, despite her issues with institutions, that she is glad Cy is connected to one?
4. Why does Smith rarely get manicures and never get pedicures?
5. What does the man with the sign say in his email to the entire university community?
6. How does Smith show that when she went to the ATM in the first story in “Screengrabs” it was early on in the pandemic?
7. What does Smith say about her husband Nick in Intimations: Debts and Lessons”?
8. Who is Beck from “A Woman with A Little Dog”?
9. What does Smith say in regards to how certain crimes are categorized?
10. What does Smith thank Carol for in “Intimations: Debts and Lessons”?
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