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

2. Who did people “thank God for” (16) after the pandemic when, Smith says, they were not seen as worthy of a $15/ hour minimum wage prior to the pandemic?
(a) Bartenders.
(b) Doctors.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Essential Workers.

3. Which writer does Smith quote in her essay “Something to Do”?
(a) Ottessa Moshe.
(b) Ottessa Moshfegh.
(c) Odessa Mosher.
(d) Lottie Moshfegh.

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

5. At the end of “The American Exception,” what did Smith say states were forced to bid on during the pandemic?
(a) Textbooks.
(b) Laptops.
(c) Personal Protective Equipment.
(d) Houses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the social issues Smith said that pandemic forced many to have to face in her essay “Something to Do”?

2. What does Smith say writers often write about at some point in their careers at the start of “Something to Do”?

3. “Truly laboring people,” Smith says, have to adhere to this, to which an artist does not have to adhere?

4. As Smith stares into the garden of peonies near two other women her age, Smiths comments of what “gaudy symbol,” the flowers represent, “in the middle of a barren concrete metropolis” (3)?

5. What does Trump say we did not have prior to the pandemic, which Smith agrees?

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