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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 does Smith say we had before the pandemic instead of death?
(a) Universal healthcare.
(b) Immortality.
(c) The flu.
(d) Casualties and victims.

2. At which point does Smith say a man submits to nature?
(a) In old age.
(b) In death.
(c) At birth.
(d) In private.

3. Who does Smith say are patronized by people of all ages?
(a) Older women.
(b) Old men.
(c) Kids.
(d) Young men.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Smith say she believed to be the “cage of her circumstance” (3) when she was younger?

2. Which actor is in the director’s chair talking to Jesus in the meme someone sent Smith at the start of the pandemic?

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

4. Smith thinks that one reason Americans cannot fathom plagues is because they do not discriminate based on what?

5. Smith says that despite America’s feelings of being untouchable, as the pandemic progressed, what did America appear to lead the world in?

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