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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “An Elder at the 98 Bus Stop,” “A Provocation in the Park,” “Post-script: Contempt as a Virus” .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Smith refers to the space of time that artists usually occupy as a “charming but useless” what?
(a) Playground.
(b) Existence.
(c) Reality.
(d) Playpen.

2. At the start of “Suffering Like Mel Gibson,” which type of person does Smith say dreamed of an “isolation within isolation” (29) at the start of the pandemic?
(a) Married couples with children.
(b) Roommates.
(c) Grandparents.
(d) Dating couples.

3. What does the woman call Smith, which makes her realize she must know her?
(a) Sadie.
(b) Miss Smith.
(c) Mrs. Smith.
(d) Zadie.

4. What term does Smith question, which the media uses in regards to some crimes, such as when a man kills an innocent group of people in a church?
(a) Murder.
(b) Hate crime.
(c) Ideology.
(d) Heinous.

5. Who were the few people, according to Smith, who did not have to “seek out something to do” during the pandemic?
(a) Writers.
(b) Essential workers.
(c) Painters.
(d) Gamers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Smith say the link to long life in America is?

2. What does Smith say she believed to be the “cage of her circumstance” (3) when she was younger?

3. At the end of “An Elder at the 98 Bus Stop,” what does Smith’s mother say lockdown is doing to people?

4. Though the “bubble” of privilege can be penetrated, what bubble does Smith say cannot be penetrated?

5. In “A Hovering Young Man,” Smith says that her students have long been suspicious of the “infinite promise of” (56) what?

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