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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. What position does Sikander take on after ending his real estate endeavors?
(a) Professor of clinical cardiology.
(b) Private practice physician.
(c) Professor of clinical psychology.
(d) Professor emeritus.

2. Which of the following phrases does the narrator use to describe Trump’s ascendancy (23)?
(a) “[The] completion of the long-planned advent of the merchant class to the sanctum sanctorum of American power.”
(b) “A dream that imagines the flourishing of others as nothing more than a road sign.”
(c) “A vision of himself impossibly enhanced, improbably enlarged, released from the pull of debt or truth or history.”
(d) “A man delivered from consequence itself into pure self-absorption.”

3. Of which of the following did the Akhtars have framed photos from travel?
(a) The Clintons’ birthplace.
(b) The Roosevelts’ birthplace.
(c) The Trumps’ birthplace.
(d) The Kennedys’ birthplace.

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

5. In what year does Sikander sit for a real estate investment seminar?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1982.

Short Answer Questions

1. The comment that “he felt something strange in his chest, like a pounding on a distant drum” (7) offers examples of which of the following?

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?

3. How much older than Trump is Sikander?

4. What profession had Sikander’s father held?

5. Of which of the following did the Akhtars have framed photos from travel?

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