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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. On what day of the week does the narrator’s car break down?
(a) Sunday.
(b) Tuesday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Wednesday.

2. 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) Simile.
(b) Analogy.
(c) Conceit.
(d) Metaphor.

3. Which of the following medications does the narrator’s mother use to ease the pain of her terminal cancer?
(a) Codeine.
(b) Tylenol III.
(c) Fentanyl.
(d) Demerol.

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

5. How large a stone is on the ring the narrator buys to propose to Asha?
(a) One carat.
(b) One-half carat.
(c) One and a half carats.
(d) Two carats.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time on Election Day does the narrator call his father?

2. What High Renaissance artist does the narrator invoke when describing “the expression [he] saw on Asha’s face [as] one of tenderness” (193)?

3. Which of the following does the narrator footnote as a Muslim hygienic practice?

4. Which of the following refers to Moroni as “the finest mind of her generation” (xiii)?

5. In what year does Sikander sit for a real estate investment seminar?

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