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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. 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) “[The] completion of the long-planned advent of the merchant class to the sanctum sanctorum of American power.”
(c) “A dream that imagines the flourishing of others as nothing more than a road sign.”
(d) “A vision of himself impossibly enhanced, improbably enlarged, released from the pull of debt or truth or history.”

2. How much money does Sikander lose at baccarat in Atlantic City?
(a) $5,000.
(b) $2,500.
(c) $10,000.
(d) $7,500.

3. To whom does the narrator ascribe the comments in his play that seem to praise or justify the 11 September 2001 attacks?
(a) Latif.
(b) Fatima.
(c) Sikander.
(d) Riaz.

4. 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) Simile.
(c) Conceit.
(d) Metaphor.

5. In what year do the Awan’s move to Peshawar?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1986.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month does Latif die?

2. In what hospital does Sikander examine Trump for Brugada syndrome?

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

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

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

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