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

2. What does Trump say we did not have prior to the pandemic, which Smith agrees?
(a) Death.
(b) Quarantines.
(c) Pandemics.
(d) Disease.

3. Despite a pandemic’s ability to discriminate, says Smith, the structure of American hierarchy meant that which groups experience higher death rates?
(a) Asians and Latinos.
(b) Blacks and whites.
(c) Whites and Asians.
(d) Blacks and Latinos.

4. Which philosopher does Smith cite when discussing the difference between the thinker and his real life?
(a) Kierkagaard.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Plato.

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 is the title of the second essay in Zadie’s Smith’s collection, Intimations?

2. Nabokov said the inspiration for his novel came from an article about an ape that drew what?

3. Who is the author of the essay “Peonies”?

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

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

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