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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 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) Anaphora.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Chiasmus.
(d) Rhyme.

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

3. Whom does the narrator quote as saying “Never trust the artist. Trust the tale” (25)?
(a) George Eliot.
(b) Thomas Hardy.
(c) D.H. Lawrence.
(d) T.E. Lawrence.

4. In what year is the narrator born?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1971.

5. In what month does Latif die?
(a) May.
(b) June.
(c) July.
(d) April.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following invitations to speak about his play does the narrator report refusing?

2. Rooh Afza lassi is which of the following?

3. 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?

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

5. Outside which town does the driver Naseem hires live?

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