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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 Sikander sit for a real estate investment seminar?
(a) 1981.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1984.

2. The comment that “The Raj was the jewel in His Majesty’s crown” (27) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Simile.
(b) Conceit.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Analogy.

3. Which of the following is among the books Asma gives the narrator?
(a) Year Five of the Algerian Revolution.
(b) Black Skin, White Masks.
(c) A Dying Colonialism.
(d) The Wretched of the Earth.

4. 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?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Rhyme.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Chiasmus.

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

6. What time is Trump’s appointment with Sikander?
(a) Eight in the evening.
(b) Six in the evening.
(c) Eight in the morning.
(d) Nine in the morning.

7. Rooh Afza lassi is which of the following?
(a) An unflavored squash beverage.
(b) A vanilla-flavored squash beverage.
(c) A rose-flavored dairy beverage.
(d) A rose-flavored squash beverage.

8. In what year is the narrator born?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1973.

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

10. At what time on Election Day does the narrator call his father?
(a) Half past six in the evening.
(b) Half past noon.
(c) Half past ten at night.
(d) Half past three in the afternoon.

11. What admonition does Moroni offer the narrator in her letter to him following the 11 September 2001 attacks (xvi)?
(a) “Use the difficulty; make it your own.”
(b) “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
(c) “An ye harm none, do what you will.”
(d) “Don’t let the jerks get you down.”

12. How much money does Sikander lose at baccarat in Atlantic City?
(a) $5,000.
(b) $2,500.
(c) $10,000.
(d) $7,500.

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

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

15. In which city does Sikander secure a position after first coming to the United States?
(a) Newark.
(b) New York City.
(c) Atlantic City.
(d) Trenton.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does the narrator report starting to write the book?

2. Which of the following phrases does the narrator use to describe Trump’s ascendancy (23)?

3. 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?

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

5. What color hijab does Ramla Awan wear?

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