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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters II and III.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Chiasmus.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Rhyme.
(d) Anaphora.

2. How does the character in the narrator’s play describe “something unexpected and unwelcome, a sense of pride” after the 11 September 2001 attacks (24)?
(a) A “swelling.”
(b) A “surge.”
(c) A “blush.”
(d) A “throbbing.”

3. In what year did Muzzammil immigrate to the San Diego area?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1976.

4. The comment about “his ceaselessly shifting emotions, his evasions and avowals and disavowals, the steady shedding of his civility” (14) offers examples of which of the following?
(a) Chiasmus.
(b) Anaphora.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Rhyme.

5. In what grade is the narrator in 1979?
(a) Third.
(b) Fourth.
(c) Second.
(d) Fifth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What admonition does Moroni offer the narrator in her letter to him following the 11 September 2001 attacks (xvi)?

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

3. Rooh Afza lassi is which of the following?

4. To which of the following did Sikander take his family camping?

5. In what year does the narrator report winning a Pulitzer?

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