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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. At which point does Smith say a man submits to nature?
(a) At birth.
(b) In old age.
(c) In death.
(d) In private.

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

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

4. What flowers does Smith wish she was looking at instead of peonies?
(a) Daffodils.
(b) Roses.
(c) Lupines.
(d) Tulips.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the conversation Smith overhears at a Subway shop, Smith learns that the two women conversing are more appalled by what factor, than that the child is too young for technology?

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

3. 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)?

4. What does Smith say the link to long life in America is?

5. What is the title of the third story in Zadie Smith’s collection, Intimations?

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