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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is among the books Asma gives the narrator?
(a) Pride and Prejudice.
(b) Mansfield Park.
(c) Emma.
(d) Sense and Sensibility.

2. What is the name of the driver Naseem hires to drive the narrator and Sikander?
(a) Ahmad.
(b) Harithah.
(c) Zayd.
(d) Jahsh.

3. How long is the letter Moroni writes the narrator following the 11 September 2001 attacks (xvi)?
(a) 1 page.
(b) 10 pages.
(c) 5 pages.
(d) 2 pages.

4. In the comments “Sure, fine, yes, they had perpetrated evil and enslavement in their endless plunder of the Indian motherland since the early 1600s—but so what? Were we robots? Did we have to keep repeating the violence” (28), the pronoun “we” refers to which of the following?
(a) Muslims.
(b) Americans.
(c) Pre-partition Indians.
(d) Minnesotans.

5. In what grade is the narrator in 1979?
(a) Third.
(b) Second.
(c) Fourth.
(d) Fifth.

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

7. In what year does Sikander last meet Trump?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1997.
(d) 1993.

8. 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) Metaphor.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Simile.

9. Which of the following refers to Moroni as “the finest mind of her generation” (xiii)?
(a) Norman O’Brien.
(b) Norman Mailer.
(c) Norman O. Brown.
(d) Doc Brown.

10. 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) Metonymy.
(b) Litotes.
(c) Simile.
(d) Hyperbole.

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

12. In what year does Latif die?
(a) 1998.
(b) 1999.
(c) 1996.
(d) 1997.

13. In what year does Fatima die?
(a) 2015.
(b) 2012.
(c) 2014.
(d) 2013.

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

15. In what year do the Awan’s move to Peshawar?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1986.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The term “paaya” refers to which of the following?

3. The comment about “his ceaselessly shifting emotions, his evasions and avowals and disavowals, the steady shedding of his civility” (14) offers examples of which of the following?

4. Which of the following invitations to speak about his play does the narrator report refusing?

5. In the novel, how is it reported that Trump prefers his steaks?

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