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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) Fourth.
(b) Fifth.
(c) Third.
(d) Second.

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

3. How much older than Trump is Sikander?
(a) Five years.
(b) One year.
(c) Two years.
(d) Ten years.

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

5. 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) Muslims.
(c) Americans.
(d) Minnesotans.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Sikander last meet Trump?

2. In what program is the student who complained to the administration that Moroni was speaking against the troops by questioning Desert Storm?

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

4. What award does the narrator note his play receives?

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?

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