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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 a man can bend to his will?
(a) Religion.
(b) Rules.
(c) Steel pipes.
(d) Nature.

2. The day Smith looked at the peonies in the Jefferson Market Garden was just a few days before what Smith refers to as what?
(a) The Global Humbling.
(b) The Global Fumbling.
(c) The Worldwide Humbling.
(d) The Global Submission.

3. What former British Prime Minister does Smith reference at the end of “The American Exception”?
(a) Tony Blair.
(b) Margaret Thatcher.
(c) Neville Chamberlain.
(d) Winston Churchill.

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

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 does Smith say writers often write about at some point in their careers at the start of “Something to Do”?

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

3. What does Smith say is the truest, most obvious reason why people write or make art?

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

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

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