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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who were the few people, according to Smith, who did not have to “seek out something to do” during the pandemic?
2. What is one thing Smith says that wealthy people would not do if suffering were relative?
3. After the pandemic, Smith says we must modify our new knowledge of privilege to involve what new category?
4. In “The American Exception,” Smith says that Americans attacked death as a series of what?
5. What name does Smith say would better suit the writing department in which she works at the University in “Peonies”?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the meme Smith references in “Suffering Like Mel Gibson.”
2. How do “defenders of art typically justify its existence” (21) according to Smith?
3. What does Smith say about love in “Something to Do”?
4. What is one of the societal issues Smith says the pandemic lockdown has forced many people to face?
5. Whose speech does “The American Exception” begin with and what it is in regards to?
6. Describe the moment Smith realized her own privilege in a Subway shop.
7. What does Smith say the country had begun to learn or discuss in regards to privilege prior to the virus?
8. Describe the article Smith references in “Suffering Like Mel Gibson” about a 17-year-old during lockdown.
9. Despite a plague's inability to discriminate, Smith says what about the structure of America’s hierarchy?
10. What is Smith doing at the very start of “Peonies’?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay exploring the theme of survival in “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule.” Analyze the difference between how Smith deals with the pandemic versus the man with the wheelchair.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay analyzing the title of Smith’s essay “A Provocation in the Park.” In what ways does this title impact your reading of the essay? In what ways does this title reflect the theme or mood of the story? Use direct examples from the text.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay exploring the pandemic’s significance on each story in Intimations. Include how the pandemic affects the overall mood of the collection.
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