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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 year do the narrator’s parents meet?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1962.

2. What profession had Sikander’s father held?
(a) Soldier.
(b) Laborer.
(c) Physician.
(d) Imam.

3. Outside which town does the driver Naseem hires live?
(a) Wah Cantt.
(b) Islamabad.
(c) Hasan Abdal.
(d) Taxila.

4. The comment about “the disgusting social and military project that would come to bloom in Syria and Iraq like toxic desert dogbane” (77) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Conceit.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Simile.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At what school did the narrator’s great aunt Asma teach?

2. Which of the following does the narrator’s uncle Naseem cite “as proof of his point about the fundamental military basis of great leadership” (76)?

3. What profession does Muzzammil follow?

4. 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?

5. Which of the following does the narrator’s uncle Naseem cite “as proof of his point about the fundamental military basis of great leadership” (76)?

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