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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. Which of the following is among the books Asma gives the narrator?
(a) Emma.
(b) Sense and Sensibility.
(c) Mansfield Park.
(d) Pride and Prejudice.

2. At what school did the narrator’s great aunt Asma teach?
(a) University of Connecticut.
(b) Brown University.
(c) University of Vermont.
(d) Stanford University.

3. Which of the following invitations to speak about his play does the narrator report refusing?
(a) David Letterman’s show.
(b) Bill Nye’s show.
(c) Larry King’s show.
(d) Bill Maher’s show.

4. How much older than Trump is Sikander?
(a) Two years.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Five years.
(d) One year.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Rooh Afza lassi is which of the following?

4. In what year do the narrator’s parents meet?

5. Which of the following phrases does the narrator use to describe Trump’s ascendancy (23)?

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