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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “A Woman With a Little Dog,” “A Hovering Young Man”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What example does Smith use in “Peonies” as a time when submitting might be better than resisting?
(a) Peer pressure.
(b) When your alarm clock goes off.
(c) Disease.
(d) Torture.

2. At the end of “A Hovering Young Man,” Smith insists that style is all that young people have and says that this style has been what?
(a) Drastically changed.
(b) Manipulated.
(c) Meticulously perfected.
(d) Radically interrupted.

3. What is one of the social issues Smith said that pandemic forced many to have to face in her essay “Something to Do”?
(a) Unloving parents.
(b) Low minimum wage.
(c) Lack of sick leave.
(d) Bad marriages.

4. What is the name of the homeless man Smith sees I at the ATM in “A Character in a Wheelchair in the Vestibule”?
(a) Marvin.
(b) Milton.
(c) Mack.
(d) Myron.

5. What does Smith liken Trump’s speech to after coming to her senses after the first part of his speech?
(a) Poison.
(b) White lies.
(c) Snake oil.
(d) Rotten apples.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name does Smith say would better suit the writing department in which she works at the University in “Peonies”?

2. What is the title of the third story in Zadie Smith’s collection, Intimations?

3. What is the name of the woman Smith mentions at the start of “A Woman with a Little Dog”?

4. What is the one “indulgence” (38) Smith says that she gets regularly in “A Man With Strong Hands”?

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

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