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

2. In “The American Exception,” Smith says that nobody in 1945 wanted to go back to 1939 unless it was to do what?
(a) Change the course of history.
(b) Be younger.
(c) Resurrect the dead.
(d) Vote for a different leader.

3. Who is the author of the essay “Peonies”?
(a) Zora Smith.
(b) Zinnia Smith.
(c) Zadie Smith.
(d) Zelda Smith.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Smith say the link to long life in America is?

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

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 is one of the ways in which Smith said she had tried to resist her own nature?

5. What flowers does Smith wish she was looking at instead of peonies?

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