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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Screengrabs,” “A Man with Strong Hands,” “A Character in a Wheelchair in a Vestibule.” .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Smith say has “rarely been random” in America in her essay “The American Exception”?
(a) COVID-19 cases.
(b) COVID-19 recoveries.
(c) Presidential nominations.
(d) Untimely death.

2. What is the one “indulgence” (38) Smith says that she gets regularly in “A Man With Strong Hands”?
(a) Hot stone massage.
(b) Swedish massage.
(c) Chair massage.
(d) Full body massage.

3. As Smith stares into the garden of peonies near two other women her age, Smiths comments of what “gaudy symbol,” the flowers represent, “in the middle of a barren concrete metropolis” (3)?
(a) Opportunity.
(b) Fertility.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Holiness.

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 stand Zoom meetings.
(b) She did not get enough likes on social media.
(c) She did not have access to the internet from home.
(d) She could not see her friends.

5. Which philosopher does Smith cite when discussing the difference between the thinker and his real life?
(a) Kierkagaard.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Plato.
(d) Nietzsche.

Short Answer Questions

1. What image of “bored children” at home does Smith use in “The American Exception”?

2. What date was the speech Smith references at the start of “The American Exception”?

3. What is different about the nail salon Smith describes in “A Man with Strong Hands” compared to others in her area?

4. What subject does Smith hear Myron discussing loudly at the end of “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule”?

5. What is one of the ways in which Smith said she had tried to resist her own nature?

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