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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Something To Do” .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of the essay “Peonies”?
(a) Zora Smith.
(b) Zinnia Smith.
(c) Zadie Smith.
(d) Zelda Smith.

2. Nabokov said the inspiration for his novel came from an article about an ape that drew what?
(a) His self-portrait.
(b) Bananas.
(c) His captors.
(d) His own cage.

3. “Truly laboring people,” Smith says, have to adhere to this, to which an artist does not have to adhere?
(a) A boss’s whim.
(b) Traffic patterns.
(c) A bus schedule.
(d) A time clock.

4. 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.

5. What does Smith say writers often write about at some point in their careers at the start of “Something to Do”?
(a) Writer’s block.
(b) The health benefits of writing.
(c) Why they write.
(d) How to write.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the third story in Zadie Smith’s collection, Intimations?

2. Smith says that despite America’s feelings of being untouchable, as the pandemic progressed, what did America appear to lead the world in?

3. Which writer does Smith quote in her essay “Something to Do”?

4. What does Smith say she believed to be the “cage of her circumstance” (3) when she was younger?

5. At the end of “The American Exception,” what did Smith say states were forced to bid on during the pandemic?

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