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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Five: Chapter VIII and Back Matter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About which of the following groups does the narrator’s taxi driver in Scranton wax nostalgic?
(a) Freemasons.
(b) Dante Literary Society.
(c) International Order of Elks.
(d) Salvation Army.

2. How long does the narrator report being in a relationship with Asha?
(a) 4 months.
(b) 4 days.
(c) 4 years.
(d) 4 weeks.

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

4. What profession had Sikander’s father held?
(a) Physician.
(b) Soldier.
(c) Imam.
(d) Laborer.

5. In what program is the student who complained to the administration that Moroni was speaking against the troops by questioning Desert Storm?
(a) PharmD.
(b) ROTC.
(c) MBA.
(d) MFA.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which city does Sikander secure a position after first coming to the United States?

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

3. The sentence “The personal theme for the period ahead was embodiment; if life was a school, it was time to take the curriculum” (185) offers an example of which of the following?

4. The comment that “Difficulty had been the flint stone against which her powers of analysis were sharpened” (xvi) offers an example of which of the following?

5. Where is the narrator born?

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