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

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

3. While looking on at the garden, Smith thinks of a quote by Nabokov regarding his inspiration for which novel?
(a) Lolita.
(b) Laura.
(c) Glory.
(d) Mary.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Though private interests play a role in the lives of many Americans, what private interest does Smith say should not be one of them?

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

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

4. What does Smith say has “rarely been random” in America in her essay “The American Exception”?

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

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