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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. In what year did Muzzammil immigrate to the San Diego area?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1976.

2. 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) Conceit.
(d) Metaphor.

3. Which of the following is the name of Muzzammil’s wife?
(a) Safiya.
(b) Fatima.
(c) Asha.
(d) Anjum.

4. Of which of the following did the Akhtars have framed photos from travel?
(a) Mount Vernon.
(b) Locust Grove.
(c) Monticello.
(d) Fallingwater.

5. 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) Litotes.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Simile.
(d) Metonymy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Fatima die?

2. Which of the following does the narrator receive as a gift for his forty-second birthday?

3. At what school did the narrator’s great aunt Asma teach?

4. 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)?

5. How long is the letter Moroni writes the narrator following the 11 September 2001 attacks (xvi)?

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