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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. Which type of person does Smith say was overjoyed with the new free time at the start of the pandemic?
(a) Children of artists.
(b) Artists with children.
(c) People living alone in city apartments.
(d) Artists without children.

2. In suffering like Mel Gibson, Smith says that prior to the pandemic people were learning about the link between privilege and what?
(a) Class.
(b) Gender.
(c) Intersectionality.
(d) Race.

3. What is the title of the fourth essay is Zadie Smith’s collection Intimations?
(a) Suffering like Jesus.
(b) Suffering like Mel Gibson.
(c) A Conversation with Jesus.
(d) A Conversation between Jesus and Mel Gibson.

4. Smith says that if you were to ask Barbara what she might be doing on a particular holiday, what is one possible answer she might give?
(a) Ordering take-out.
(b) Sleeping late.
(c) Binging on Netflix.
(d) Going to the Catskills.

5. What does Smith say “demanded a new dawn” (11)?
(a) Women.
(b) Americans.
(c) Night.
(d) Disaster.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Cy often tell Smith he can help her with at the library?

3. Smith describes the “Ideal, rent-controlled city dweller” who “creates community” without ever using what word?

4. What does Smith say has “rarely been random” in America in her essay “The American Exception”?

5. In “The American Exception,” Smith says that Americans attacked death as a series of what?

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