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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. Which of the following medications does the narrator’s mother use to ease the pain of her terminal cancer?
(a) Codeine.
(b) Demerol.
(c) Fentanyl.
(d) Tylenol III.

2. The comment that “Abbottabad is a military town, a kind of Pakistani West Point” (69) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Conceit.
(b) Analogy.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Simile.

3. The comment that “The Prophet’s Safiya was supposedly a very beautiful woman, which is not exactly what I would have said of the Safiya I knew, at least not before saying other things about her” (55) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Litotes.
(d) Simile.

4. Whom does the narrator quote as saying “Never trust the artist. Trust the tale” (25)?
(a) D.H. Lawrence.
(b) Thomas Hardy.
(c) T.E. Lawrence.
(d) George Eliot.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what month does Latif die?

3. In what grade is the narrator in 1979?

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

5. What profession had Sikander’s father held?

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