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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 is the term Smith says reflects her resistance to the nature of her gender?
(a) Internalized misanthropy.
(b) Externalized misogyny.
(c) Internalized misandry.
(d) Internalized misogyny.

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

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

4. At the end of “The American Exception,” what did Smith say states were forced to bid on during the pandemic?
(a) Houses.
(b) Personal Protective Equipment.
(c) Textbooks.
(d) Laptops.

5. What does Smith say the link to long life in America is?
(a) Money.
(b) Healthy eating habits.
(c) Exercise.
(d) Good luck.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. “Truly laboring people,” Smith says, have to adhere to this, to which an artist does not have to adhere?

3. Nabokov said the inspiration for his novel came from an article about an ape that drew what?

4. Though private interests play a role in the lives of many Americans, what private interest does Smith say should not be one of them?

5. What type of person does Smith say has created some of the most powerful art she has seen?

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