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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 does Fatima die?
(a) 2015.
(b) 2013.
(c) 2012.
(d) 2014.

2. In what year does the narrator report starting to write the book?
(a) 2015.
(b) 2018.
(c) 2017.
(d) 2016.

3. In which city does Sikander secure a position after first coming to the United States?
(a) Newark.
(b) New York City.
(c) Atlantic City.
(d) Trenton.

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) Simile.
(b) Conceit.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Metaphor.

5. What lines does the narrator report taking into his play (50)?
(a) “They run around telling everyone else about human rights. But not for them. Look how they treat their own blacks.”
(b) “He’s right. They deserve what they got. And what they’re going to get.”
(c) “Taking what we have. Oil, land. Treating us like animals.”
(d) “Turning us against each other. Making us spill each other’s blood. Just like the British.”

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How long is the letter Moroni writes the narrator following the 11 September 2001 attacks (xvi)?

4. Which of the following invitations to speak about his play does the narrator report refusing?

5. Whom does the narrator quote as saying “Never trust the artist. Trust the tale” (25)?

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