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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 program is the student who complained to the administration that Moroni was speaking against the troops by questioning Desert Storm?
(a) ROTC.
(b) PharmD.
(c) MBA.
(d) MFA.

2. Which of the following phrases does the narrator use to describe Trump’s ascendancy (23)?
(a) “A vision of himself impossibly enhanced, improbably enlarged, released from the pull of debt or truth or history.”
(b) “[The] completion of the long-planned advent of the merchant class to the sanctum sanctorum of American power.”
(c) “A man delivered from consequence itself into pure self-absorption.”
(d) “A dream that imagines the flourishing of others as nothing more than a road sign.”

3. The term “zamindar” refers to which of the following in the novel?
(a) Impoverished.
(b) Ennobled.
(c) Landowning.
(d) Renting.

4. 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) Muslims.
(c) Americans.
(d) Pre-partition Indians.

5. Near what water is the resort the narrator reports his parents visit?
(a) Lake Champlain.
(b) Great Lakes.
(c) Lake Pontchartrain.
(d) Finger Lakes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Sikander sit for a real estate investment seminar?

2. What is the name of the driver Naseem hires to drive the narrator and Sikander?

3. Who is President of the United States when “Overture: To America” begins?

4. To how high an interest rate is the narrator forced to agree in the repair shop in Scranton?

5. How much is the revised estimate for the repair to the narrator’s car in Scranton?

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