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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Something To Do” .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Smith says that despite America’s feelings of being untouchable, as the pandemic progressed, what did America appear to lead the world in?
(a) Deaths.
(b) Unity.
(c) False positives.
(d) Vaccines.

2. What image of “bored children” at home does Smith use in “The American Exception”?
(a) Climbing the walls.
(b) Staring zombie like at a screen.
(c) Twiddling their thumbs.
(d) Crying from boredom.

3. “Truly laboring people,” Smith says, have to adhere to this, to which an artist does not have to adhere?
(a) A time clock.
(b) A boss’s whim.
(c) A bus schedule.
(d) Traffic patterns.

4. What song does Smith reflect on how the lyrics would change if it were written for a man?
(a) Girls Just Want To Have Fun.
(b) (You Make Me Feel) Like a Natural Woman.
(c) I Am Woman.
(d) Just Like A Woman.

5. In “The American Exception,” Smith says that nobody in 1945 wanted to go back to 1939 unless it was to do what?
(a) Vote for a different leader.
(b) Change the course of history.
(c) Be younger.
(d) Resurrect the dead.

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. Though private interests play a role in the lives of many Americans, what private interest does Smith say should not be one of them?

3. What date was the speech Smith references at the start of “The American Exception”?

4. Despite a pandemic’s ability to discriminate, says Smith, the structure of American hierarchy meant that which groups experience higher death rates?

5. In “The American Exception,” Smith says that Americans attacked death as a series of what?

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