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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is something a professor has that Smith says an IT person does not have at the end of “A Hovering Young Man”?
2. Smith says that when it comes to certain crimes, we only wonder later if it has something to do with a feeling of hopeless what on the part of the criminal?
3. About how old is Barbra in “A Woman with a Little Dog”?
4. Despite Barbara insisting her dog is well-behaved, Smith says the dog does what to everyone who walks by?
5. Who taught Smith “to replace the missing layer of skin with language” (92)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Myron think of all the people leaving NYC based on the phone call Smith overhears in the ATM?
2. What does Barbara say to Smith just before she is heading her rental car to leave the city?
3. How does Smith show that when she went to the ATM in the first story in “Screengrabs” it was early on in the pandemic?
4. What does Smith admit is different between how public school closings impact Ben versus how they impact her family?
5. How does Smith know the woman at the bus stop who approaches her must have known her from long ago?
6. Why is Smith going to the ATM in “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule”?
7. What does Smith say her feelings have always been about her ability to survive an apocalypse?
8. Who is Barbara from “A Woman with a Little Dog”?
9. What are the two beauty treatments Smith will get and why?
10. What does Smith tell her students about style each semester?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing the theme of crime and punishment in “A Provocation in the Park.” What are Smtih’s thoughts on the subject and how are her thoughts bolstered or challenged by events in the essay?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay expounding on the theme of contempt in “Post-script: Contempt as a Virus.” Include the examples of both British and American forms of contempt Smith describes.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay analyzing Smith’s narrative style in the final essay, “Intimations: Debts and Lessons.” Explore her choice to write this piece in the form of a numbered list. What do you think her intentions or mood were at the time of writing? What are your overall thoughts on this style?
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