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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) A Dying Colonialism.
(b) Year Five of the Algerian Revolution.
(c) Black Skin, White Masks.
(d) The Wretched of the Earth.

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

3. 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.

4. What lines does the narrator report taking into his play (50)?
(a) “He’s right. They deserve what they got. And what they’re going to get.”
(b) “They run around telling everyone else about human rights. But not for them. Look how they treat their own blacks.”
(c) “Turning us against each other. Making us spill each other’s blood. Just like the British.”
(d) “Taking what we have. Oil, land. Treating us like animals.”

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

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

7. 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) Grant.
(b) Hayes.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Lincoln.

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

9. The comment about “the disgusting social and military project that would come to bloom in Syria and Iraq like toxic desert dogbane” (77) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Conceit.
(c) Simile.
(d) Analogy.

10. The comment that “Abbottabad is a military town, a kind of Pakistani West Point” (69) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Analogy.
(b) Simile.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Conceit.

11. What award does the narrator note his play receives?
(a) TOny.
(b) Nobel.
(c) Oscar.
(d) Pulitzer.

12. Of which of the following did the Akhtars have framed photos from travel?
(a) The Trumps’ birthplace.
(b) The Roosevelts’ birthplace.
(c) The Clintons’ birthplace.
(d) The Kennedys’ birthplace.

13. Which of the following invitations to speak about his play does the narrator report refusing?
(a) The Daily Show.
(b) Sesame Street.
(c) Nightline.
(d) Fox and Friends.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The term “zakat” refers to which of the following in the novel?

2. In which city was the narrator on Election Day 2016?

3. The comment that “the man seemed to be turning into an imbecile, his hodgepodge views like mental flatulence, one fetid odor after another” (16) offers an example of which of the following?

4. What is the name of the driver’s son whom Sikander treats?

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

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