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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. Which of the following is among the books Asma gives the narrator?
(a) The Wretched of the Earth.
(b) Year Five of the Algerian Revolution.
(c) Black Skin, White Masks.
(d) A Dying Colonialism.

2. The comment that “The Raj was the jewel in His Majesty’s crown” (27) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Analogy.
(b) Conceit.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Simile.

3. 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?
(a) Minnesotans.
(b) Muslims.
(c) Americans.
(d) Pre-partition Indians.

4. In what year does the narrator meet Rind?
(a) 2014.
(b) 2011.
(c) 2013.
(d) 2012.

5. The sentence “Deluded admonitions, however true; futile tenderness, however comforting” (120) offers examples of which of the following?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Synecdoche.
(d) Chiasmus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time is Trump’s appointment with Sikander?

2. How much money does Fatima leave to the narrator upon her death?

3. The comment that “he felt something strange in his chest, like a pounding on a distant drum” (7) offers an example of which of the following?

4. In what year does Latif die?

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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