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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Suffering Like Mel Gibson” .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the third story in Zadie Smith’s collection, Intimations?
(a) Something to Say.
(b) Something to Do.
(c) Something to write.
(d) How to fill time during a pandemic.

2. What does Smith say the link to long life in America is?
(a) Exercise.
(b) Good luck.
(c) Money.
(d) Healthy eating habits.

3. In the conversation Smith overhears at a Subway shop, the two women discuss seeing a baby holding what item?
(a) An iPhone.
(b) An iPad.
(c) A harmonica.
(d) His mother’s keys.

4. In what city does Smith live at the start of “Peonies”?
(a) Chicago.
(b) New York.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Los Angeles.

5. Smith thinks that one reason Americans cannot fathom plagues is because they do not discriminate based on what?
(a) Zip code.
(b) Gender.
(c) Skin color.
(d) Wealth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the fourth essay is Zadie Smith’s collection Intimations?

2. What flowers does Smith wish she was looking at instead of peonies?

3. In “Something to Do,” Smith says that without love life can seem what?

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

5. 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?

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