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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 does Smith say the link to long life in America is?
2. In what city does Smith live at the start of “Peonies”?
3. In “Something to Do,” Smith says that without love life can seem what?
4. Which writer does Smith quote in her essay “Something to Do”?
5. Despite a pandemic’s ability to discriminate, says Smith, the structure of American hierarchy meant that which groups experience higher death rates?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Smith say the country had begun to learn or discuss in regards to privilege prior to the virus?
2. 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?
3. In what ways does Smith say she tried to resist what she felt was the cage of her gender when she was younger?
4. What are some of the various types of loneliness Smith describes people felt at the start of the lockdown in “Suffering Like Mel Gibson”?
5. What is one of the societal issues Smith says the pandemic lockdown has forced many people to face?
6. Despite a plague's inability to discriminate, Smith says what about the structure of America’s hierarchy?
7. Describe the moment Smith realized her own privilege in a Subway shop.
8. What does Smith say was missing from the American concept of death in “The American Exception”?
9. In “The American Exception” Smith says that Americans attack death as what?
10. In what way does Smith agree with Trump’s sentiment that prior to the pandemic “we had no death” (12)?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay exploring theme of suffering in Smith’s essay, “Suffering Like Mel Gibson.”
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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