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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Intimations” .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Smith always worried that she would not do well in an apocalypse because she lacks what?
(a) Common sense.
(b) Survival instincts and a will to survive.
(c) Money.
(d) Fear.

2. In “Suffering Like Mel Gibson” Smith says that class can alter what?
(a) Your taste in clothes.
(b) Your level of empathy.
(c) Your conception of reality.
(d) The number of cars you own.

3. What image of “bored children” at home does Smith use in “The American Exception”?
(a) Climbing the walls.
(b) Crying from boredom.
(c) Twiddling their thumbs.
(d) Staring zombie like at a screen.

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

5. What does Smith note about the hate from the man holding the sign in Washington Square Park?
(a) It is pointed inward.
(b) It is not violent.
(c) It does not discriminate.
(d) It is pointed outward.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where does the young man work in “A Hovering Young Man”?

4. Smith says that if you were to ask Barbara what she might be doing on a particular holiday, what is one possible answer she might give?

5. What does Smith say writers often write about at some point in their careers at the start of “Something to Do”?

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