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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Smith say is the truest, most obvious reason why people write or make art?
(a) Because they cannot get a real job.
(b) Because it is something to do.
(c) Because they cannot live without creating art.
(d) Because they have no other skills.

2. What is the title of the third story in Zadie Smith’s collection, Intimations?
(a) Something to write.
(b) How to fill time during a pandemic.
(c) Something to Do.
(d) Something to Say.

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

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

5. What image of “bored children” at home does Smith use in “The American Exception”?
(a) Crying from boredom.
(b) Climbing the walls.
(c) Twiddling their thumbs.
(d) Staring zombie like at a screen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What example does Smith use in “Peonies” as a time when submitting might be better than resisting?

2. What does Trump say we did not have prior to the pandemic, which Smith agrees?

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

4. What does Smith say “demanded a new dawn” (11)?

5. What name does Smith say would better suit the writing department in which she works at the University in “Peonies”?

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