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

2. What example does Smith use in “Peonies” as a time when submitting might be better than resisting?
(a) Torture.
(b) When your alarm clock goes off.
(c) Peer pressure.
(d) Disease.

3. What two things does Smith say share in common their ability to distort one’s vision?
(a) Privilege and disease.
(b) Suffering and starvation.
(c) Privilege and suffering.
(d) Suffering and Endurance.

4. Though Barbara is older, Smith says she is like many women in the city who do not get old in what “traditional” (48) way?
(a) Elderly.
(b) Scientific.
(c) Feminine.
(d) Boring.

5. Where does the young man work in “A Hovering Young Man”?
(a) The university cafe.
(b) Admissions office.
(c) The Registrar’s office.
(d) The university library.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which philosopher does Smith cite when discussing the difference between the thinker and his real life?

2. What is the name of the homeless man Smith sees I at the ATM in “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule”?

3. After the pandemic, Smith says we must modify our new knowledge of privilege to involve what new category?

4. Who is the author of the essay “Peonies”?

5. What is one of the ways in which Smith said she had tried to resist her own nature?

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