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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In “Suffering Like Mel Gibson” Smith says that class can alter what?
(a) The number of cars you own.
(b) Your conception of reality.
(c) Your taste in clothes.
(d) Your level of empathy.

2. What is the title of the fourth essay is Zadie Smith’s collection Intimations?
(a) Suffering like Jesus.
(b) A Conversation with Jesus.
(c) Suffering like Mel Gibson.
(d) A Conversation between Jesus and Mel Gibson.

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

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

5. Which type of person does Smith say was overjoyed with the new free time at the start of the pandemic?
(a) Artists without children.
(b) Artists with children.
(c) Children of artists.
(d) People living alone in city apartments.

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

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

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

9. Which actor is in the director’s chair talking to Jesus in the meme someone sent Smith at the start of the pandemic?
(a) Mel Gibson.
(b) Tom Hanks.
(c) Burt Reynolds.
(d) Michael Douglass.

10. What does Smith say we were in a “long, involved cultural conversation” about prior to the pandemic?
(a) Gender inequality.
(b) Free public universities.
(c) Privilege.
(d) Universal Healthcare.

11. What purported purpose of art does Smith say is usually overstated in her essay “Something to Do”?
(a) Its political efficacy.
(b) Its fundraising abilities.
(c) Its aesthetic value.
(d) Offer financial security to the artist.

12. Which type of person does Smith describe as being shuffled “from one isolation to another and back again” (30)?
(a) Children of divorced parents.
(b) Cheating spouses.
(c) Doctors.
(d) Essential workers.

13. What term does Smith reference in “The American Exception” which Trump used in reference to other countries he saw as inferior?
(a) "Crappy countries."
(b) "Unimportant countries."
(c) "Shithole countries."
(d) "Lowlife countries."

14. What does Smith say “demanded a new dawn” (11)?
(a) Night.
(b) Americans.
(c) Women.
(d) Disaster.

15. Who is the author of the essay “Peonies”?
(a) Zora Smith.
(b) Zadie Smith.
(c) Zelda Smith.
(d) Zinnia Smith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two things does Smith say share in common their ability to distort one’s vision?

2. What type of person does Smith say has created some of the most powerful art she has seen?

3. What song does Smith reflect on how the lyrics would change if it were written for a man?

4. In suffering like Mel Gibson, Smith says that prior to the pandemic people were learning about the link between privilege and what?

5. The day Smith looked at the peonies in the Jefferson Market Garden was just a few days before what Smith refers to as what?

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