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

2. Which of the following is among the books Asma gives the narrator?
(a) Black Skin, White Masks.
(b) A Dying Colonialism.
(c) Year Five of the Algerian Revolution.
(d) The Wretched of the Earth.

3. What admonition does Moroni offer the narrator in her letter to him following the 11 September 2001 attacks (xvi)?
(a) “Use the difficulty; make it your own.”
(b) “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
(c) “Don’t let the jerks get you down.”
(d) “An ye harm none, do what you will.”

4. The comment that “the man seemed to be turning into an imbecile, his hodgepodge views like mental flatulence, one fetid odor after another” (16) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Simile.
(b) Conceit.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Analogy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the narrator born?

2. How does the character in the narrator’s play describe “something unexpected and unwelcome, a sense of pride” after the 11 September 2001 attacks (24)?

3. What libation does Emily give the narrator that she has received from Rind?

4. Whom does the narrator quote as saying “Never trust the artist. Trust the tale” (25)?

5. Which of the following invitations to speak about his play does the narrator report refusing?

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