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

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) They lost their jobs.
(c) Global pandemic.
(d) World War.

3. Why does Smith assume the nail salon she goes to must do a good business?
(a) Everyone she knows goes there.
(b) She can never get an appointment.
(c) It is a large space in Manhattan where rent is very high.
(d) It never closes.

4. In “A Man With Strong Hands,” Smith’s masseur tells her that she never does what while getting a massage?
(a) Listens.
(b) Reads.
(c) Relaxes.
(d) Talks.

5. In “Suffering Like Mel Gibson,” Smith says that suffering “is not relative; it is” (34) what?
(a) Imaginary.
(b) A waste of time.
(c) Absolute.
(d) Necessary.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule,” Myron says that everyone is afraid of a cold when all they need to do is what?

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

3. After the man with the sign sent the email to the university they scrambled to figure out the motivation behind it so as to do what properly?

4. What is the title of the third short essay in “Screengrabs”?

5. Which type of person does Smith say was overjoyed with the new free time at the start of the pandemic?

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