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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Screengrabs,” “A Man with Strong Hands,” “A Character in a Wheelchair in a Vestibule.” .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Smith’s Masseur call her in “A Man With Strong Hands”?
(a) Young lady.
(b) Hey, lady.
(c) Hey, girl.
(d) Little girl.

2. In “A Man with Strong Hands” Smith admits that for Ben a public school day off can cause chaos, but for her it is what?
(a) A loss of income.
(b) An inconvenience.
(c) Quality time spent with her kids.
(d) A day she and her kids get to sleep late.

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

4. What “obsession” (6) does Smith liken to her resistance to nature as a youth, an obsessions she says many writers share?
(a) Control.
(b) Order.
(c) Materialism.
(d) Chaos.

5. What is the title of the second essay in Zadie’s Smith’s collection, Intimations?
(a) Intimations.
(b) Screengrabs.
(c) The American Exception.
(d) Peonies.

Short Answer Questions

1. The day Smith looked at the peonies in the Jefferson Market Garden was just a few days before what Smith refers to as what?

2. Which type of person does Smith say was overjoyed with the new free time at the start of the pandemic?

3. What part of New York is Smith surprised to find empty in “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule”?

4. What is the setting at the start of “Peonies”?

5. What is the topic of conversation Smith overhears between two woman at a Subway shop in “Suffering Like Mel Gibson”?

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