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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 is the truest, most obvious reason why people write or make art?
(a) Because they have no other skills.
(b) Because they cannot live without creating art.
(c) Because they cannot get a real job.
(d) Because it is something to do.

2. The day Smith looked at the peonies in the Jefferson Market Garden was just a few days before what Smith refers to as what?
(a) The Global Humbling.
(b) The Worldwide Humbling.
(c) The Global Submission.
(d) The Global Fumbling.

3. What date was the speech Smith references at the start of “The American Exception”?
(a) 2020.
(b) 2021.
(c) 2019.
(d) 2018.

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

5. While looking on at the garden, Smith thinks of a quote by Nabokov regarding his inspiration for which novel?
(a) Glory.
(b) Mary.
(c) Laura.
(d) Lolita.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What song does Smith reflect on how the lyrics would change if it were written for a man?

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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