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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Chapters VI and VII.

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

2. What is the name of the narrator’s deceased older brother?
(a) Atef.
(b) Imtiaz.
(c) Yusuf.
(d) Danyal.

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

4. Which of the following does the narrator footnote as a Muslim hygienic practice?
(a) Brushing hair.
(b) Brushing clothes.
(c) Braided beards.
(d) Brushing teeth.

5. Which of the following flowers does the narrator report that Rind displays in his home?
(a) Texas bluebonnet.
(b) Tartar thistle.
(c) Scottish rose.
(d) Lily of the valley.

Short Answer Questions

1. Near which of the following does the narrator don a cross?

2. Which of the following is among the books Asma gives the narrator?

3. At which of the following does the narrator procure a cross?

4. What libation does Emily give the narrator that she has received from Rind?

5. Which of the following does the narrator report attended his play?

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