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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At which point does Smith say a man submits to nature?
(a) At birth.
(b) In death.
(c) In private.
(d) In old age.

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

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

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

5. What does Smith say she believed to be the “cage of her circumstance” (3) when she was younger?
(a) Her gender.
(b) Her class.
(c) Her race.
(d) Her sexual orientation.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “The American Exception,” Smith says that Americans attacked death as a series of what?

2. What does Trump say we did not have prior to the pandemic, which Smith agrees?

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. In “The American Exception,” Smith says that the poorer countries Trump condemned did not have the foresight to be what?

5. While looking on at the garden, Smith thinks of a quote by Nabokov regarding his inspiration for which novel?

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