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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 does the narrator’s uncle Naseem cite “as proof of his point about the fundamental military basis of great leadership” (76)?
(a) Madison.
(b) Jefferson.
(c) Washington.
(d) Adams.

2. The comment that “he felt something strange in his chest, like a pounding on a distant drum” (7) offers examples of which of the following?
(a) Chiasmus.
(b) Rhyme.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Anaphora.

3. Which of the following does the narrator receive as a gift for his forty-second birthday?
(a) A page of Much Ado about Nothing from the First Folio.
(b) A page of The Merchant of Venice from the Second Folio.
(c) A page of The Merchant of Venice from the First Folio.
(d) A page of Much Ado about Nothing from the Second Folio.

4. What kind of pencil does the narrator report using for his initial dream exercise?
(a) Staedtler Norica.
(b) Bic Mechanical.
(c) Palomino ForestChoice.
(d) Dixon Ticonderoga.

5. In what year does Sikander sit for a real estate investment seminar?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1981.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Sikander first meet Trump?

2. Of which of the following did the Akhtars have framed photos from travel?

3. What award does the narrator note his play receives?

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

5. Where is the narrator born?

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