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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 “The Raj was the jewel in His Majesty’s crown” (27) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Simile.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Conceit.

2. The term “zamindar” refers to which of the following in the novel?
(a) Renting.
(b) Ennobled.
(c) Landowning.
(d) Impoverished.

3. The comment that “Abbottabad is a military town, a kind of Pakistani West Point” (69) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Conceit.
(b) Analogy.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Simile.

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

5. Which of the following invitations to speak about his play does the narrator report refusing?
(a) Fox and Friends.
(b) Sesame Street.
(c) The Daily Show.
(d) Nightline.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Sikander lose at baccarat in Atlantic City?

2. In what grade is the narrator in 1979?

3. In what month does Latif die?

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

5. What is the name of the driver’s son whom Sikander treats?

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