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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “A Woman With a Little Dog,” “A Hovering Young Man”.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What image of “bored children” at home does Smith use in “The American Exception”?
(a) Climbing the walls.
(b) Crying from boredom.
(c) Twiddling their thumbs.
(d) Staring zombie like at a screen.

3. What is something a professor has that Smith says an IT person does not have at the end of “A Hovering Young Man”?
(a) Tenure.
(b) A difficult job.
(c) A good salary.
(d) An honest job.

4. In “Suffering Like Mel Gibson” Smith discusses an article she read about a 17-year-old who committed suicide during the pandemic for what reason?
(a) She could not see her friends.
(b) She did not have access to the internet from home.
(c) She could not stand Zoom meetings.
(d) She did not get enough likes on social media.

5. What is the name of the elderly woman's dog referenced in “A Woman with a Little Dog”?
(a) Spot.
(b) Beck.
(c) Barky.
(d) Fido.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Smith say “demanded a new dawn” (11)?

2. What phrase does Smith use to describes Cy’s style in “A Hovering Young Man”?

3. What did Barbara do when her dog died, according to Smith in “A Woman with a Little Dog”?

4. In “The American Exception,” Smith says that nobody in 1945 wanted to go back to 1939 unless it was to do what?

5. Smith describes the young man at the start of “A Hovering Young Man” as a typical what?

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