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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 the title of the second essay in Zadie’s Smith’s collection, Intimations?
2. What does Smith say “demanded a new dawn” (11)?
3. Despite a pandemic’s ability to discriminate, says Smith, the structure of American hierarchy meant that which groups experience higher death rates?
4. 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?
5. What is different about Jesus versus the actor speaking to him in the meme Smith saw during the pandemic?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Smith doing at the very start of “Peonies’?
2. In what ways does Smith say she tried to resist what she felt was the cage of her gender when she was younger?
3. Describe the meme Smith references in “Suffering Like Mel Gibson.”
4. 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?
5. In “The American Exception” Smith says that Americans attack death as what?
6. Despite a plague's inability to discriminate, Smith says what about the structure of America’s hierarchy?
7. What does Smith say artists of all kinds are asked at some point in their lives?
8. Describe the article Smith references in “Suffering Like Mel Gibson” about a 17-year-old during lockdown.
9. What does Smith say was missing from the American concept of death in “The American Exception”?
10. What does Smith say about love in “Something to Do”?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Smith experiences personal changes throughout the collection. In what ways does Smith change and in what ways does she remain the same? How do these changes develop the themes of Intimations?
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 pandemic’s significance on each story in Intimations. Include how the pandemic affects the overall mood of the collection.
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