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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Tariq say that got the barista to call the police?
(a) That Muslims would one day rule the world.
(b) That America deserved what it was going to get.
(c) That Americans deserved to be beheaded.
(d) That all infidels would ultimately submit to Allah.

2. What does Amir say he is, now that he has renounced his faith?
(a) A heathen.
(b) An apostate.
(c) An infidel.
(d) A pagan.

3. What does Amir say is at the heart of the Muslim religion?
(a) The injustice of being subjugated by westerners.
(b) The intercultural exchange of living between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.
(c) The challenges of living in the desert.
(d) The desire to escape from a corrupt earthly existence.

4. How does the playwright characterize Jory’s appearance?
(a) Hyper-alert.
(b) Aggressive.
(c) Somnolent.
(d) Almost masculine.

5. How do Emily and Isaac explain their kiss, when Jory and Amir come back?
(a) They confess to their affair.
(b) They insist that they were not even touching.
(c) They jump apart and only mumble incoherent excuses.
(d) They say he was comforting her because she was upset.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Amir say he felt pride in, on 9/11/2001?

2. Who calls Amir just as Emily is trying to defuse a tense conversation about racial profiling in Scene Three?

3. Why does Amir say he changed his name?

4. What work of Emily’s does Amir say he prefers to the portrait of him?

5. What does Amir say he understands people feeling about Muslims who kill and die for their faith?

Short Essay Questions

1. What political position has Abe taken, as a result of the events that brought him back to Amir?

2. What knife does Jory stick into Amir on her way out the door?

3. What is the significance of Abe’s arrival at the end of Scene 3?

4. What advice does Amir give Abe about how he expresses his political views, and what is Abe’s response?

5. What grounds has Akhtar left the audience, by the end of the play, for feeling that there is a path to virtue and integrity?

6. What does Amir tell Emily he wants for her, at the end, and what is Emily’s response?

7. What causes Isaac to tell Emily that she will make the “mistake in London” again?

8. What causes Amir to hit Emily?

9. What does Amir accuse Emily and Isaac, in Scene 3, of feeling about Islam?

10. What does Emily mean when she says, in Scene 4, that her work was naïve?

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