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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. What libation does Emily give the narrator that she has received from Rind?
(a) William Larue Weller.
(b) Pappy Van Winkle.
(c) Woodford Reserve.
(d) Elijah Craig.

2. How much are the narrator’s shares in Rind’s investment company worth when he sells them?
(a) $22.
(b) $16.
(c) $2.40.
(d) $5.

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

4. What day of the week does the narrator note was 11 September 2001?
(a) Wednesday.
(b) Monday.
(c) Tuesday.
(d) Thursday.

5. 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?
(a) Americans.
(b) Minnesotans.
(c) Pre-partition Indians.
(d) Muslims.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which city does Latif secure a position after first coming to the United States?

2. At which of the following schools does the narrator remark Bork taught?

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

4. In what year do the Awan’s move to Peshawar?

5. In what year is the narrator born?

(see the answer key)

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