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

2. In which city was the narrator on Election Day 2016?
(a) New York.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Houston.

3. At what school did the narrator’s great aunt Asma teach?
(a) University of Connecticut.
(b) Brown University.
(c) University of Vermont.
(d) Stanford University.

4. 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) Pre-partition Indians.
(b) Minnesotans.
(c) Americans.
(d) Muslims.

5. The comment that “The Prophet’s Safiya was supposedly a very beautiful woman, which is not exactly what I would have said of the Safiya I knew, at least not before saying other things about her” (55) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Litotes.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Simile.
(d) Metonymy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What lines does the narrator report taking into his play (50)?

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

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

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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