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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “The American Exception” .

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. In “The American Exception,” Smith says that Americans attacked death as a series of what?
(a) Mysteries.
(b) Discrete problems.
(c) Bad decisions.
(d) Unfortunate events.

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

4. What date was the speech Smith references at the start of “The American Exception”?
(a) 2019.
(b) 2018.
(c) 2020.
(d) 2021.

5. What does Smith say we had before the pandemic instead of death?
(a) Immortality.
(b) Casualties and victims.
(c) Universal healthcare.
(d) The flu.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of the essay “Peonies”?

2. In what city does Smith live at the start of “Peonies”?

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

4. At which point does Smith say a man submits to nature?

5. What image of “bored children” at home does Smith use in “The American Exception”?

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