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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What image of “bored children” at home does Smith use in “The American Exception”?
(a) Twiddling their thumbs.
(b) Staring zombie like at a screen.
(c) Crying from boredom.
(d) Climbing the walls.

4. Smith says that despite America’s feelings of being untouchable, as the pandemic progressed, what did America appear to lead the world in?
(a) Unity.
(b) False positives.
(c) Deaths.
(d) Vaccines.

5. What is one of the social issues Smith said that pandemic forced many to have to face in her essay “Something to Do”?
(a) Unloving parents.
(b) Bad marriages.
(c) Low minimum wage.
(d) Lack of sick leave.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What name does Smith say would better suit the writing department in which she works at the University in “Peonies”?

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

4. At which point does Smith say a man submits to nature?

5. Smith refers to the space of time that artists usually occupy as a “charming but useless” what?

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