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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 Smith call the particular form of contempt she sees from Dominic?
(a) Racial contempt.
(b) Gender contempt.
(c) Self contempt.
(d) Class contempt.

2. What does Cy often tell Smith he can help her with at the library?
(a) Research.
(b) Ordering books.
(c) Printing.
(d) Her IT needs.

3. What is the name of the elderly woman's dog referenced in “A Woman with a Little Dog”?
(a) Beck.
(b) Barky.
(c) Spot.
(d) Fido.

4. Why does Smith assume the nail salon she goes to must do a good business?
(a) It never closes.
(b) It is a large space in Manhattan where rent is very high.
(c) She can never get an appointment.
(d) Everyone she knows goes there.

5. 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) Meticulously perfected.
(b) Drastically changed.
(c) Radically interrupted.
(d) Manipulated.

Short Answer Questions

1. From who does Smith say she learned “solidarity” (88)?

2. Smith describes the young man at the start of “A Hovering Young Man” as a typical what?

3. What do Smith and Ben complain they have to do during the many public school days off?

4. What is the title of the sixth short essay in Smith’s “Screengrabs”?

5. Though Smith typically walks by sign holders in the park, what sign intrigues her in “A Provocation in the Park”?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Barbara from “A Woman with a Little Dog”?

2. What does Smith find interesting about the way in which the man with the sign projects his hate?

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

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

5. How does Smith describe Cy at the beginning of “A Hovering Young Man”?

6. How does Smith describe the nail salon and its clientele where she gets her massages in “A Man with Strong Hands”?

7. What does Smith say about the “ideal, rent-controlled city dweller” (49)?

8. What is Smith’s relationship like with Ben, her masseuse?

9. What does the man with the sign say in his email to the entire university community?

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

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