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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. What do Smith and Ben complain they have to do during the many public school days off?
(a) Scramble for childcare.
(b) Hang out with their kids.
(c) Bring their kids to work.
(d) Read to their kids.

2. What does Smith say we had before the pandemic instead of death?
(a) Casualties and victims.
(b) Immortality.
(c) The flu.
(d) Universal healthcare.

3. At the end of “A Hovering Young Man,” Smith insists that style is all that young people have and says that this style has been what?
(a) Radically interrupted.
(b) Drastically changed.
(c) Manipulated.
(d) Meticulously perfected.

4. At the end of “A Hovering Young Man,” Smith says that the “enviable style of the young is little protection against” (56) what?
(a) Fraud.
(b) Catastrophe.
(c) Aging.
(d) A Pandemic.

5. 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) Ideology.
(b) Hate crime.
(c) Heinous.
(d) Murder.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which type of person does Smith describe as being shuffled “from one isolation to another and back again” (30)?

2. What two things does Smith say share in common their ability to distort one’s vision?

3. What is the name of the second short essay of “Screengrabs”?

4. In what city does Smith live at the start of “Peonies”?

5. What is Smith exiting when approached by an unfamiliar woman in “An Elder at the 98 Bus Stop”?

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