2. Which of the following does Sikander give as a reason Trump was a preferable candidate for office?
(a) Lower taxes.
(b) Greater freedom of travel.
(c) More compassion.
(d) Lower taxes.

3. In what year does the narrator report winning a Pulitzer?
(a) 2014.
(b) 2012.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2013.

4. Which of the following words does Rind’s research indicate people in the United States associate with Islam (138)?
(a) Sand.
(b) Life.
(c) Death.
(d) Love.

5. Which of the following phrases does the narrator use to describe Trump’s ascendancy (23)?
(a) “A vision of himself impossibly enhanced, improbably enlarged, released from the pull of debt or truth or history.”
(b) “A dream that imagines the flourishing of others as nothing more than a road sign.”
(c) “[The] completion of the long-planned advent of the merchant class to the sanctum sanctorum of American power.”
(d) “A man delivered from consequence itself into pure self-absorption.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The comment about “the disgusting social and military project that would come to bloom in Syria and Iraq like toxic desert dogbane” (77) offers an example of which of the following?

2. What auto repair company does the narrator use to have his car fixed?

3. Which of the following euphemistic labels does the narrator apply to syphilis?

4. Which of the following countries is represented among the medical students who observe the narrator’s treatment for syphilis?

5. Which of the following does the narrator footnote as a Muslim hygienic practice?

(see the answer key)

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