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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What meal did Sikander have with Trump at Fresco by Scotto?
(a) Veal parmigiana.
(b) Lasagna.
(c) Spaghetti and meatballs.
(d) Linguini alfredo.

3. In what hospital does Sikander examine Trump for Brugada syndrome?
(a) Mayo Clinic.
(b) Mount Sinai.
(c) Bethlehem.
(d) St. Jude’s.

4. To whom does the narrator ascribe the comments in his play that seem to praise or justify the 11 September 2001 attacks?
(a) Sikander.
(b) Fatima.
(c) Latif.
(d) Riaz.

5. How many first cousins does the narrator report having?
(a) 15.
(b) 22.
(c) 5.
(d) 8.

6. Which of the following is the name of Muzzammil’s wife?
(a) Safiya.
(b) Anjum.
(c) Asha.
(d) Fatima.

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

8. What position does Sikander take on after ending his real estate endeavors?
(a) Professor emeritus.
(b) Private practice physician.
(c) Professor of clinical psychology.
(d) Professor of clinical cardiology.

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

10. In which city was the narrator on Election Day 2016?
(a) New York.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Houston.

11. The comment that “he felt something strange in his chest, like a pounding on a distant drum” (7) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Simile.
(b) Analogy.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Conceit.

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

13. In the comments about who “liked to spend out time yowling for a past that helped us not a whit, a past that only fortified our loftiest delusions and encouraged excuses instead of the work required of us if we were ever to catch up to the rest of the world” (29), the pronoun “we” refers to which of the following?
(a) Americans.
(b) Pre-partition Indians.
(c) Minnesotans.
(d) Muslims.

14. Who is President of the United States when “Overture: To America” begins?
(a) Barack Obama.
(b) George W. Bush.
(c) George H.W. Bush.
(d) Bill Clinton.

15. 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) Americans.
(b) Muslims.
(c) Minnesotans.
(d) Pre-partition Indians.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year do the narrator’s parents meet?

2. Which of the following refers to Moroni as “the finest mind of her generation” (xiii)?

3. 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)?

4. What lines does the narrator report taking into his play (50)?

5. What profession does Muzzammil follow?

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