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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 former British Prime Minister does Smith reference at the end of “The American Exception”?
2. What is one of the social issues Smith said that pandemic forced many to have to face in her essay “Something to Do”?
3. The moment Smith realized that she had misunderstood the conversation between the women in the Subway shop was the moment Smith says she became aware of her what?
4. What song does Smith reflect on how the lyrics would change if it were written for a man?
5. What does Smith say we were in a “long, involved cultural conversation” about prior to the pandemic?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is one of the societal issues Smith says the pandemic lockdown has forced many people to face?
2. In what way does Smith agree with Trump’s sentiment that prior to the pandemic “we had no death” (12)?
3. What are some of the “special words....lurking on the horizon” (4) for women her age that Smith describes in “Peonies”?
4. What does Smith say was missing from the American concept of death in “The American Exception”?
5. How does Smith describe the similarity and difference between privilege and suffering in “Suffering Like Mel Gibson”?
6. Describe the moment Smith realized her own privilege in a Subway shop.
7. What does Smith say that artists learned in regards to privacy and time at the start of “Suffering Like Mel Gibson”?
8. Despite a plague's inability to discriminate, Smith says what about the structure of America’s hierarchy?
9. How does Smith describe the space typically occupied by artists?
10. What does Smith say about what disaster demands at the start of “The American Exception”?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing the way in which Smith and her mother try to create some kind of normalcy during the pandemic lockdown in “An Elder at the 98 Bus Stop.” How do they interact? What do they discuss? How is this attempt at normalcy possible or impossible?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay exploring the pandemic’s significance on each story in Intimations. Include how the pandemic affects the overall mood of the collection.
Essay Topic 3
In the final line of Intimations, Smith says that her “physical and moral cowardice have never really been tested, until now” (97). Write an essay exploring that line and including examples of this from the stories in Intimations.
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