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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Chapters VI and VII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does the narrator report is the Pulitzer-winning author of The Looming Tower?
(a) Lawrence Wright.
(b) D.H. Lawrence.
(c) D.H. Richard.
(d) Richard Wright.

2. Which of the following does the narrator’s uncle Naseem cite “as proof of his point about the fundamental military basis of great leadership” (76)?
(a) Hayes.
(b) Grant.
(c) Lincoln.
(d) Johnson.

3. How much does the narrator report paying for transcripts of the depositions in Rind’s investment company’s court case?
(a) $8,900.
(b) $8,100.
(c) $9,700.
(d) $7,300.

4. In which city does Latif secure a position after first coming to the United States?
(a) Atlantic City.
(b) Trenton.
(c) Newark.
(d) New York City.

5. For which of the following is Asha working when the narrator meets her?
(a) Aramco.
(b) BP.
(c) ExxonMobil.
(d) Texaco.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the narrator call “the last of [his mother’s] edible pleasures” (217)?

2. The term “paaya” refers to which of the following?

3. In the comments “Sure, fine, yes, they had perpetrated evil and enslavement in their endless plunder of the Indian motherland since the early 1600s—but so what? Were we robots? Did we have to keep repeating the violence” (28), the pronoun “we” refers to which of the following?

4. In the comments about who “liked to spend out time yowling for a past that helped us not a whit, a past that only fortified our loftiest delusions and encouraged excuses instead of the work required of us if we were ever to catch up to the rest of the world” (29), the pronoun “we” refers to which of the following?

5. Which of the following is among the books Asma gives the narrator?

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