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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “A Woman With a Little Dog,” “A Hovering Young Man”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is different about Jesus versus the actor speaking to him in the meme Smith saw during the pandemic?
(a) He is kneeling.
(b) He is praying.
(c) He is on a cross.
(d) He is soaked in blood.

2. What event has triggered Smith and her husband to leave New York City in “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule”?
(a) Civil unrest.
(b) Global pandemic.
(c) World War.
(d) They lost their jobs.

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

4. Smith says that despite America’s feelings of being untouchable, as the pandemic progressed, what did America appear to lead the world in?
(a) Deaths.
(b) False positives.
(c) Vaccines.
(d) Unity.

5. What is the title of the third story in Zadie Smith’s collection, Intimations?
(a) Something to write.
(b) Something to Do.
(c) How to fill time during a pandemic.
(d) Something to Say.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the term Smith says reflects her resistance to the nature of her gender?

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

4. Where is Smith at the beginning of “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule”?

5. In “Something to Do,” Smith says that without love life can seem what?

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