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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. How much money does Sikander lose at baccarat in Atlantic City?
(a) $5,000.
(b) $2,500.
(c) $7,500.
(d) $10,000.

2. What position does Sikander take on after ending his real estate endeavors?
(a) Professor of clinical cardiology.
(b) Professor emeritus.
(c) Private practice physician.
(d) Professor of clinical psychology.

3. To which of the following did Sikander take his family camping?
(a) The Adirondacks.
(b) The Appalachians.
(c) The Tetons.
(d) The Davis Mountains.

4. Outside which town does the driver Naseem hires live?
(a) Wah Cantt.
(b) Islamabad.
(c) Hasan Abdal.
(d) Taxila.

5. 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)?
(a) A “throbbing.”
(b) A “swelling.”
(c) A “blush.”
(d) A “surge.”

Short Answer Questions

1. How many first cousins does the narrator report having?

2. In what year does the narrator report starting to write the book?

3. 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?

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

5. 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?

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