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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters IV and V.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The comment that “The Prophet’s Safiya was supposedly a very beautiful woman, which is not exactly what I would have said of the Safiya I knew, at least not before saying other things about her” (55) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Simile.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Litotes.

2. Which of the following is among the books Asma gives the narrator?
(a) Pride and Prejudice.
(b) Emma.
(c) Mansfield Park.
(d) Sense and Sensibility.

3. 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?
(a) Pre-partition Indians.
(b) Muslims.
(c) Minnesotans.
(d) Americans.

4. The comment that “The Raj was the jewel in His Majesty’s crown” (27) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Analogy.
(b) Simile.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Conceit.

5. What auto repair company does the narrator use to have his car fixed?
(a) Scranton Engine Works.
(b) Clark’s Summit Garage.
(c) Marek Auto Repair.
(d) Alamo Paint and Body.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the driver’s son whom Sikander treats?

2. 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?

3. In what year does Fatima die?

4. Where does the narrator report that Rind’s father moved after the death of his daughter?

5. Which of the following does the narrator report attended his play?

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