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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. How high a fever does the narrator report running when he dreams of Muhammad in Punjab?
(a) 103.
(b) 104.
(c) 102.
(d) 105.

2. The term “zakat” refers to which of the following in the novel?
(a) Money to be invested in stocks.
(b) Money to be put into savings.
(c) Money to be distributed to the poor.
(d) Money to be given to the state.

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?
(a) Minnesotans.
(b) Americans.
(c) Pre-partition Indians.
(d) Muslims.

4. How much money does the narrator note receiving from selling his shares in Rind’s investment company?
(a) $7.5 million.
(b) $5 million.
(c) $1 million.
(d) $2.5 million.

5. What day of the week does the narrator note was 11 September 2001?
(a) Wednesday.
(b) Monday.
(c) Tuesday.
(d) Thursday.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what location does the narrator meet Asha?

2. How much does Asha pay for a session with her psychic?

3. What investment company does Rind found in which the narrator invests?

4. The sentence “Deluded admonitions, however true; futile tenderness, however comforting” (120) offers examples of which of the following?

5. The sentence “The personal theme for the period ahead was embodiment; if life was a school, it was time to take the curriculum” (185) offers an example of which of the following?

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