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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “An Elder at the 98 Bus Stop,” “A Provocation in the Park,” “Post-script: Contempt as a Virus” .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In “A Man With Strong Hands,” Smith’s masseur tells her that she never does what while getting a massage?
(a) Relaxes.
(b) Listens.
(c) Talks.
(d) Reads.

2. What type of person does Smith say has created some of the most powerful art she has seen?
(a) People who constantly strive for perfection.
(b) People who feel completely alone in the world.
(c) People who have no contact with the outside world.
(d) People who endlessly engage with their subjects.

3. What name does Smith say would better suit the writing department in which she works at the University in “Peonies”?
(a) The Experiential Experience Department.
(b) The Mind Control Department.
(c) The Controlling Experience Department.
(d) The Controlling Educator Department.

4. What does Smith say can be thought of as a virus due to the way it spreads in “Post-Script: Contempt as a Virus”?
(a) COVID-19.
(b) Good deeds.
(c) Love.
(d) Contempt.

5. What does Smith call the particular form of contempt she sees from Dominic?
(a) Self contempt.
(b) Racial contempt.
(c) Gender contempt.
(d) Class contempt.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Smith says that when it comes to certain crimes, we only wonder later if it has something to do with a feeling of hopeless what on the part of the criminal?

4. Smith says that if you were to ask Barbara what she might be doing on a particular holiday, what is one possible answer she might give?

5. What is different about Jesus versus the actor speaking to him in the meme Smith saw during the pandemic?

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