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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. Which of the following does the narrator report meeting at Rind’s foundation events?
(a) Sami Sleiman.
(b) Ramy Youssef.
(c) Hasan Minhaj.
(d) Zayn Malik.

2. Which of the following trains does the narrator note not wanting to take?
(a) The 2.
(b) The 1.
(c) The Q.
(d) The A.

3. What day of the week does the narrator note was 11 September 2001?
(a) Thursday.
(b) Wednesday.
(c) Tuesday.
(d) Monday.

4. For which of his cousins do the narrator’s parents worry on 11 September 2001?
(a) Yasmin.
(b) Ibrahim.
(c) Ayesha.
(d) Mustafa.

5. To what agency does Rind ascribe the ascent of the Western world over the Islamic?
(a) The proletariat.
(b) The corporation.
(c) The army.
(d) The church.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the narrator call “the last of [his mother’s] edible pleasures” (217)?

2. The sentence “Deluded admonitions, however true; futile tenderness, however comforting” (120) offers examples of which of the following?

3. Which of the following does the narrator’s uncle Naseem cite “as proof of his point about the fundamental military basis of great leadership” (76)?

4. Which of the following does the narrator receive as a gift for his forty-second birthday?

5. Which writer does the narrator remark “would not be surprised” at the ascent of Trump (23)?

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