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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Which of the following phrases does the narrator use to describe Trump’s ascendancy (23)?
(a) “A man delivered from consequence itself into pure self-absorption.”
(b) “A vision of himself impossibly enhanced, improbably enlarged, released from the pull of debt or truth or history.”
(c) “A dream that imagines the flourishing of others as nothing more than a road sign.”
(d) “[The] completion of the long-planned advent of the merchant class to the sanctum sanctorum of American power.”

5. 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) Hyperbole.
(c) Simile.
(d) Litotes.

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

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

8. To which vice-president does the narrator compare Latif?
(a) Al Gore.
(b) Dick Cheney.
(c) Mike Pence.
(d) Joe Biden.

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

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

11. In what program is the student who complained to the administration that Moroni was speaking against the troops by questioning Desert Storm?
(a) MFA.
(b) PharmD.
(c) MBA.
(d) ROTC.

12. The term “zakat” refers to which of the following in the novel?
(a) Money to be put into savings.
(b) Money to be given to the state.
(c) Money to be distributed to the poor.
(d) Money to be invested in stocks.

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

14. What profession had Sikander’s father held?
(a) Laborer.
(b) Imam.
(c) Physician.
(d) Soldier.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is the letter Moroni writes the narrator following the 11 September 2001 attacks (xvi)?

2. In what year does Fatima die?

3. What color hijab does Ramla Awan wear?

4. The comment that “Difficulty had been the flint stone against which her powers of analysis were sharpened” (xvi) offers an example of which of the following?

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

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