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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. Who does Smith say taught her the dangers of systemic racism?
(a) Kirin.
(b) Deborah.
(c) Ben.
(d) Darren.

2. What is the title of the sixth short essay in Smith’s “Screengrabs”?
(a) A Pandemic Provocation.
(b) Ethno-Racial Dysphoria.
(c) A Provocation in the Park.
(d) Panic in the Park.

3. Myron accuses people of believing everything they hear on the news and not being about to do what for themselves?
(a) Buy face masks.
(b) Think.
(c) Cook.
(d) Wash their hands.

4. What phrase does Smith use to describes Cy’s style in “A Hovering Young Man”?
(a) Youthful exuberance.
(b) Young eccentricity.
(c) Childish foolishness.
(d) Youthful ignorance.

5. What subject does Smith hear Myron discussing loudly at the end of “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule”?
(a) The craziness of white folks.
(b) How empty NYC is.
(c) Fran Lebowitz’s article.
(d) COVID-19 conspiracy theories.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do Smith and her mother communicate during the pandemic lockdown?

3. What does Smith say she has at times been annoyed with, but is happy Cy is connected to?

4. What does Smith say can be thought of as a virus due to the way it spreads in “Post-Script: Contempt as a Virus”?

5. How does Barbara say they will get through this at the end of “A Woman with a Little Dog”?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is Beck from “A Woman with A Little Dog”?

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

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

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

7. What does Smith say in regards to how certain crimes are categorized?

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

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

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