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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Something To Do” .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. “Truly laboring people,” Smith says, have to adhere to this, to which an artist does not have to adhere?
(a) A boss’s whim.
(b) A time clock.
(c) Traffic patterns.
(d) A bus schedule.

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

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

4. What does Smith say has “rarely been random” in America in her essay “The American Exception”?
(a) COVID-19 cases.
(b) Untimely death.
(c) Presidential nominations.
(d) COVID-19 recoveries.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Smith thinks that one reason Americans cannot fathom plagues is because they do not discriminate based on what?

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

4. What example does Smith use in “Peonies” as a time when submitting might be better than resisting?

5. Despite a pandemic’s ability to discriminate, says Smith, the structure of American hierarchy meant that which groups experience higher death rates?

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