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

2. What does Smith say the link to long life in America is?
(a) Good luck.
(b) Money.
(c) Healthy eating habits.
(d) Exercise.

3. What is one of the ways in which Smith said she had tried to resist her own nature?
(a) By not keeping track of her menstrual cycles.
(b) By wearing fake nails.
(c) By speaking with a fake accent.
(d) By dying her gray hair.

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

5. The day Smith looked at the peonies in the Jefferson Market Garden was just a few days before what Smith refers to as what?
(a) The Worldwide Humbling.
(b) The Global Fumbling.
(c) The Global Humbling.
(d) The Global Submission.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What “obsession” (6) does Smith liken to her resistance to nature as a youth, an obsessions she says many writers share?

3. What does Smith liken Trump’s speech to after coming to her senses after the first part of his speech?

4. Which president’s speech does Smith cite at the start of “The American Exception”?

5. What does Smith say we had before the pandemic instead of death?

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