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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 event has triggered Smith and her husband to leave New York City in “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule”?
(a) Civil unrest.
(b) World War.
(c) They lost their jobs.
(d) Global pandemic.
2. What is one of the ways in which Smith said she had tried to resist her own nature?
(a) By dying her gray hair.
(b) By wearing fake nails.
(c) By speaking with a fake accent.
(d) By not keeping track of her menstrual cycles.
3. What is the title of the first short essay in “Screengrabs”?
(a) My Masseuse.
(b) Ben.
(c) A Man with Strong Hands.
(d) A Writer’s Life.
4. What name does Smith say would better suit the writing department in which she works at the University in “Peonies”?
(a) The Mind Control Department.
(b) The Experiential Experience Department.
(c) The Controlling Educator Department.
(d) The Controlling Experience Department.
5. Which type of person does Smith say was overjoyed with the new free time at the start of the pandemic?
(a) Artists without children.
(b) Artists with children.
(c) Children of artists.
(d) People living alone in city apartments.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is one of Barbara’s habits in “A Woman with a Little Dog”?
2. 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)?
3. At the start of “A Hovering Young Man,” Smith describes someone who looks enough like her to be her what?
4. Where is Smith at the beginning of “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule”?
5. What is the name of Smith’s masseur in “A Man with Strong Hands”?
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