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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Despite a pandemic’s ability to discriminate, says Smith, the structure of American hierarchy meant that which groups experience higher death rates?
(a) Blacks and whites.
(b) Blacks and Latinos.
(c) Whites and Asians.
(d) Asians and Latinos.

2. What does Trump say we did not have prior to the pandemic, which Smith agrees?
(a) Disease.
(b) Death.
(c) Pandemics.
(d) Quarantines.

3. What flowers does Smith wish she was looking at instead of peonies?
(a) Roses.
(b) Lupines.
(c) Tulips.
(d) Daffodils.

4. At the end of “The American Exception,” what did Smith say states were forced to bid on during the pandemic?
(a) Textbooks.
(b) Laptops.
(c) Personal Protective Equipment.
(d) Houses.

5. In “Something to Do,” Smith says that without love life can seem what?
(a) Empty and endless.
(b) Tragic.
(c) Comical.
(d) Dark and depressing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What image of “bored children” at home does Smith use in “The American Exception”?

2. Nabokov said the inspiration for his novel came from an article about an ape that drew what?

3. What does Smith say the link to long life in America is?

4. What is the title of the second essay in Zadie’s Smith’s collection, Intimations?

5. At which point does Smith say a man submits to nature?

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