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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. Who were the few people, according to Smith, who did not have to “seek out something to do” during the pandemic?
(a) Essential workers.
(b) Gamers.
(c) Painters.
(d) Writers.

2. What does Smith say “demanded a new dawn” (11)?
(a) Disaster.
(b) Americans.
(c) Night.
(d) Women.

3. What is the title of the second essay in Zadie’s Smith’s collection, Intimations?
(a) Intimations.
(b) The American Exception.
(c) Peonies.
(d) Screengrabs.

4. What song does Smith reflect on how the lyrics would change if it were written for a man?
(a) I Am Woman.
(b) (You Make Me Feel) Like a Natural Woman.
(c) Girls Just Want To Have Fun.
(d) Just Like A Woman.

5. Which actor is in the director’s chair talking to Jesus in the meme someone sent Smith at the start of the pandemic?
(a) Tom Hanks.
(b) Michael Douglass.
(c) Mel Gibson.
(d) Burt Reynolds.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In “The American Exception,” Smith says that nobody in 1945 wanted to go back to 1939 unless it was to do what?

3. In “Suffering Like Mel Gibson” Smith says that class can alter what?

4. At the end of “The American Exception,” what did Smith say states were forced to bid on during the pandemic?

5. 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)?

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