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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters II and III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year does the narrator note Malala received a Nobel prize?
(a) 2011.
(b) 2014.
(c) 2012.
(d) 2013.

2. In what year does Sikander sit for a real estate investment seminar?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1983.

3. How many first cousins does the narrator report having?
(a) 15.
(b) 8.
(c) 22.
(d) 5.

4. In what year does the narrator report winning a Pulitzer?
(a) 2011.
(b) 2013.
(c) 2014.
(d) 2012.

5. The comment about “his ceaselessly shifting emotions, his evasions and avowals and disavowals, the steady shedding of his civility” (14) offers examples of which of the following?
(a) Chiasmus.
(b) Anaphora.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Rhyme.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lines does the narrator report taking into his play (50)?

2. The term “zamindar” refers to which of the following in the novel?

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

4. 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?

5. In what program is the student who complained to the administration that Moroni was speaking against the troops by questioning Desert Storm?

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