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

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 Say.
(c) Something to Do.
(d) Something to write.

2. While looking on at the garden, Smith thinks of a quote by Nabokov regarding his inspiration for which novel?
(a) Mary.
(b) Lolita.
(c) Laura.
(d) Glory.

3. Smith thinks of the quote she shares with her class about style one day when Cy comes near her on his what?
(a) Hoverboard.
(b) Roller skates.
(c) Motorcycle.
(d) Skateboard.

4. From whom does Smith say she learned a “readiness to admit failure and weakness” (85)?
(a) Ben.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her father.

5. From whom does Smith say she learned the art of mothering?
(a) Devorah.
(b) Carol.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Mags.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Smith call the particular form of contempt she sees from Dominic?

2. Despite Barbara insisting her dog is well-behaved, Smith says the dog does what to everyone who walks by?

3. What is different about Jesus versus the actor speaking to him in the meme Smith saw during the pandemic?

4. What image of “bored children” at home does Smith use in “The American Exception”?

5. Who taught Smith “to replace the missing layer of skin with language” (92)?

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