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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters IV and V.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year is the narrator born?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1971.

2. To which vice-president does the narrator compare Latif?
(a) Al Gore.
(b) Dick Cheney.
(c) Mike Pence.
(d) Joe Biden.

3. Near what water is the resort the narrator reports his parents visit?
(a) Great Lakes.
(b) Lake Pontchartrain.
(c) Finger Lakes.
(d) Lake Champlain.

4. What award does the narrator note his play receives?
(a) Oscar.
(b) TOny.
(c) Pulitzer.
(d) Nobel.

5. The term “latrinalia” carries which of the following meanings in the novel?
(a) Old Roman words.
(b) Toilet paper.
(c) Bathroom writing.
(d) Indoor plumbing.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. In what year does the narrator report winning a Pulitzer?

3. Who is President of the United States when “Overture: To America” begins?

4. 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?

5. The comment that “the man seemed to be turning into an imbecile, his hodgepodge views like mental flatulence, one fetid odor after another” (16) offers an example of which of the following?

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