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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Suffering Like Mel Gibson” .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Smith say writers often write about at some point in their careers at the start of “Something to Do”?
(a) The health benefits of writing.
(b) How to write.
(c) Writer’s block.
(d) Why they write.

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

3. What does Smith say a man can bend to his will?
(a) Steel pipes.
(b) Religion.
(c) Rules.
(d) Nature.

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

5. In “The American Exception,” Smith says that the poorer countries Trump condemned did not have the foresight to be what?
(a) Iceland.
(b) Sweden.
(c) America.
(d) Europe.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the start of “Suffering Like Mel Gibson,” which type of person does Smith say dreamed of an “isolation within isolation” (29) at the start of the pandemic?

2. What is different about Jesus versus the actor speaking to him in the meme Smith saw during the pandemic?

3. 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?

4. What date was the speech Smith references at the start of “The American Exception”?

5. What purported purpose of art does Smith say is usually overstated in her essay “Something to Do”?

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