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

2. 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 speaking with a fake accent.
(c) By wearing fake nails.
(d) By dying her gray hair.

3. In “Something to Do,” Smith says that without love life can seem what?
(a) Comical.
(b) Empty and endless.
(c) Tragic.
(d) Dark and depressing.

4. Nabokov said the inspiration for his novel came from an article about an ape that drew what?
(a) His captors.
(b) Bananas.
(c) His own cage.
(d) His self-portrait.

5. What term does Smith reference in “The American Exception” which Trump used in reference to other countries he saw as inferior?
(a) "Shithole countries."
(b) "Crappy countries."
(c) "Unimportant countries."
(d) "Lowlife countries."

Short Answer Questions

1. The day Smith looked at the peonies in the Jefferson Market Garden was just a few days before what Smith refers to as what?

2. What does Smith say she believed to be the “cage of her circumstance” (3) when she was younger?

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

4. Though private interests play a role in the lives of many Americans, what private interest does Smith say should not be one of them?

5. What does Smith say has “rarely been random” in America in her essay “The American Exception”?

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