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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. What time is Trump’s appointment with Sikander?
(a) Eight in the evening.
(b) Nine in the morning.
(c) Eight in the morning.
(d) Six in the evening.

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 “throbbing.”
(b) A “surge.”
(c) A “blush.”
(d) A “swelling.”

3. What position does Sikander take on after ending his real estate endeavors?
(a) Professor of clinical psychology.
(b) Professor emeritus.
(c) Professor of clinical cardiology.
(d) Private practice physician.

4. In which city was the narrator on Election Day 2016?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Houston.
(c) Chicago.
(d) New York.

5. Which of the following refers to Moroni as “the finest mind of her generation” (xiii)?
(a) Doc Brown.
(b) Norman O’Brien.
(c) Norman O. Brown.
(d) Norman Mailer.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. To which vice-president does the narrator compare Latif?

3. In what year do the narrator’s parents meet?

4. In the comments “Sure, fine, yes, they had perpetrated evil and enslavement in their endless plunder of the Indian motherland since the early 1600s—but so what? Were we robots? Did we have to keep repeating the violence” (28), the pronoun “we” refers to which of the following?

5. What meal did Sikander have with Trump at Fresco by Scotto?

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