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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. What is the name of the driver Naseem hires to drive the narrator and Sikander?
(a) Harithah.
(b) Ahmad.
(c) Jahsh.
(d) Zayd.

2. In the comments “Sure, fine, yes, they had perpetrated evil and enslavement in their endless plunder of the Indian motherland since the early 1600s—but so what? Were we robots? Did we have to keep repeating the violence” (28), the pronoun “we” refers to which of the following?
(a) Americans.
(b) Muslims.
(c) Pre-partition Indians.
(d) Minnesotans.

3. What color hijab does Ramla Awan wear?
(a) Blue.
(b) White.
(c) Green.
(d) Black.

4. Who is President of the United States when “Overture: To America” begins?
(a) George W. Bush.
(b) Bill Clinton.
(c) Barack Obama.
(d) George H.W. Bush.

5. What lines does the narrator report taking into his play (50)?
(a) “Turning us against each other. Making us spill each other’s blood. Just like the British.”
(b) “He’s right. They deserve what they got. And what they’re going to get.”
(c) “They run around telling everyone else about human rights. But not for them. Look how they treat their own blacks.”
(d) “Taking what we have. Oil, land. Treating us like animals.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Rooh Afza lassi is which of the following?

2. To which vice-president does the narrator compare Latif?

3. 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?

4. The comment that “Abbottabad is a military town, a kind of Pakistani West Point” (69) offers an example of which of the following?

5. In which city does Sikander secure a position after first coming to the United States?

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