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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of “The American Exception,” what did Smith say states were forced to bid on during the pandemic?
(a) Houses.
(b) Textbooks.
(c) Laptops.
(d) Personal Protective Equipment.

2. The day Smith looked at the peonies in the Jefferson Market Garden was just a few days before what Smith refers to as what?
(a) The Global Humbling.
(b) The Global Submission.
(c) The Worldwide Humbling.
(d) The Global Fumbling.

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

4. Smith thinks that one reason Americans cannot fathom plagues is because they do not discriminate based on what?
(a) Skin color.
(b) Zip code.
(c) Gender.
(d) Wealth.

5. In the conversation Smith overhears at a Subway shop, the two women discuss seeing a baby holding what item?
(a) An iPad.
(b) An iPhone.
(c) A harmonica.
(d) His mother’s keys.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the fifth short essay in “Screengrabs”?

2. What is NOT one of the reasons Smith considers might be behind the sign she saw in Central Park?

3. What does Trump say we did not have prior to the pandemic, which Smith agrees?

4. What are the two subjects Smith says she and her masseur talk about while she gets a massage?

5. “Truly laboring people,” Smith says, have to adhere to this, to which an artist does not have to adhere?

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