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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which president’s speech does Smith cite at the start of “The American Exception”?
2. Which writer does Smith quote in her essay “Something to Do”?
3. What is one thing Smith says that wealthy people would not do if suffering were relative?
4. What image of “bored children” at home does Smith use in “The American Exception”?
5. In “The American Exception,” Smith says that Americans attacked death as a series of what?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Smith describe the space typically occupied by artists?
2. Describe the article Smith references in “Suffering Like Mel Gibson” about a 17-year-old during lockdown.
3. What does Smith say about what disaster demands at the start of “The American Exception”?
4. What is Smith doing at the very start of “Peonies’?
5. Whose speech does “The American Exception” begin with and what it is in regards to?
6. What are some of the “special words....lurking on the horizon” (4) for women her age that Smith describes in “Peonies”?
7. What does Smith say is the only relief people in lockdown have from one another?
8. Describe the moment Smith realized her own privilege in a Subway shop.
9. Despite a plague's inability to discriminate, Smith says what about the structure of America’s hierarchy?
10. What does Smith say artists of all kinds are asked at some point in their lives?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing Smith’s relationship with Ben in “A Man with Strong Hands.” Include the role privilege plays in this essay.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay exploring the theme of submission versus resistance is the short essay “Peonies” in Zadie Smith’s intimations. Use direct examples from the text to support your viewpoint.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay exploring the significance of the title of Smith’s short essay “The American Exception.” Use direct examples from the text to support your analysis.
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