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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. What is different about Jesus versus the actor speaking to him in the meme Smith saw during the pandemic?
2. After the pandemic, Smith says we must modify our new knowledge of privilege to involve what new category?
3. At the start of “Suffering Like Mel Gibson,” which type of person does Smith say dreamed of an “isolation within isolation” (29) at the start of the pandemic?
4. At the end of “The American Exception,” what did Smith say states were forced to bid on during the pandemic?
5. Which president’s speech does Smith cite at the start of “The American Exception”?
Short Essay Questions
1. Whose speech does “The American Exception” begin with and what it is in regards to?
2. In what way does Smith agree with Trump’s sentiment that prior to the pandemic “we had no death” (12)?
3. What does Smith say was missing from the American concept of death in “The American Exception”?
4. Describe the moment Smith realized her own privilege in a Subway shop.
5. What does Smith say she does not need “a Freudian” to tell her regarding herself and the two other women her age staring at the tulips in Jefferson Market Garden?
6. What are some of the “special words....lurking on the horizon” (4) for women her age that Smith describes in “Peonies”?
7. Why does Smith say it was hard for Americans to fathom a plague?
8. What does Smith say that artists learned in regards to privacy and time at the start of “Suffering Like Mel Gibson”?
9. What does Smith say artists of all kinds are asked at some point in their lives?
10. Describe the article Smith references in “Suffering Like Mel Gibson” about a 17-year-old during lockdown.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay exploring the theme of submission versus resistance is the short essay “Peonies” in Zadie Smith’s intimations. Use direct examples from the text to support your viewpoint.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Write an essay exploring the significance of the title of Smith’s short essay “The American Exception.” Use direct examples from the text to support your analysis.
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