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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Front Matter and Chapter I.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.”

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

3. What award does Sikander win for a second time after ending his real estate endeavors?
(a) Father of the Year.
(b) First Place.
(c) Lifetime Achievement.
(d) Investigator of the Year.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Sikander first meet Trump?

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

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

4. The comment that “Difficulty had been the flint stone against which her powers of analysis were sharpened” (xvi) offers an example of which of the following?

5. What position does Sikander take on after ending his real estate endeavors?

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