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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the woman at the bus stop tell Smith she wants her doctor to do about her health issue in question?
(a) Make it stop.
(b) Ease the symptoms.
(c) Bring it on.
(d) Slow it down.

2. Smith describes the “Ideal, rent-controlled city dweller” who “creates community” without ever using what word?
(a) Swears.
(b) Community.
(c) Neighborhood.
(d) Creation.

3. Smith says that she rarely gets manicures because she can not do what at the same time?
(a) Read.
(b) Write.
(c) Scroll through facebook.
(d) Talk on the phone.

4. Why is Smith getting cash at the start of “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule”?
(a) She and her husband are leaving the city and want to have cash on them.
(b) She does not like credit cards.
(c) The restaurant she ordered from does not take credit card.
(d) Credit card machines across the city are down.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the young man Smith describes in “A Hovering Young Man”?

2. From whom did Smith learn how “to consider yourself lucky” (88) even under difficult circumstances?

3. What are the only two beauty treatments Smith gets because they either allow her to read or do not take much time?

4. In “A Man With Strong Hands,” Smith’s masseur tells her that she never does what while getting a massage?

5. Which famous New Yorker does Smith reference in “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule” for refusing to leave New York?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Smith going to the ATM in “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule”?

2. What does Barbara say to Smith just before she is heading her rental car to leave the city?

3. Why does Smith say she would likely commit suicide on the first hour of the first day of an apocalypse?

4. What does Myron think of all the people leaving NYC based on the phone call Smith overhears in the ATM?

5. What does Smith tell her students about style each semester?

6. How does Smith describe Barbara physically?

7. What does Smith say she learned from or appreciates about her parents and brother in “Intimations”?

8. What example did Smith’s mother use when telling her via video conference that the lockdown has made people crazy?

9. How does Smith know the woman at the bus stop who approaches her must have known her from long ago?

10. Who is Beck from “A Woman with A Little Dog”?

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