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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 “Difficulty had been the flint stone against which her powers of analysis were sharpened” (xvi) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Analogy.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Simile.
(d) Conceit.

2. How does the character in the narrator’s play describe “something unexpected and unwelcome, a sense of pride” after the 11 September 2001 attacks (24)?
(a) A “blush.”
(b) A “surge.”
(c) A “swelling.”
(d) A “throbbing.”

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The comment that “The Raj was the jewel in His Majesty’s crown” (27) offers an example of which of the following?

2. Which of the following refers to Moroni as “the finest mind of her generation” (xiii)?

3. Which of the following is among the books Asma gives the narrator?

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

5. In what grade is the narrator in 1979?

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