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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Five: Chapter VIII and Back Matter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The comment that “he felt something strange in his chest, like a pounding on a distant drum” (7) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Analogy.
(c) Conceit.
(d) Simile.

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

3. 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 dream that imagines the flourishing of others as nothing more than a road sign.”
(d) “A man delivered from consequence itself into pure self-absorption.”

4. Which of the following does the narrator report attended his play?
(a) Chelsea Clinton.
(b) George Clinton.
(c) Bill Clinton.
(d) Hillary Clinton.

5. How long does the narrator report being in a relationship with Asha?
(a) 4 years.
(b) 4 months.
(c) 4 weeks.
(d) 4 days.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time is Trump’s appointment with Sikander?

2. How much debt does the narrator remark he is carrying when he puts his car in for repair in Scranton?

3. Which of the following euphemistic labels does the narrator apply to syphilis?

4. Which of the following does the narrator report meeting at Rind’s foundation events?

5. Near what water is the resort the narrator reports his parents visit?

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