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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Rhyme.
(c) Chiasmus.
(d) Anaphora.

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

3. In what year does the narrator report starting to write the book?
(a) 2015.
(b) 2018.
(c) 2017.
(d) 2016.

4. Outside which town does the driver Naseem hires live?
(a) Hasan Abdal.
(b) Wah Cantt.
(c) Taxila.
(d) Islamabad.

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

6. How much older than Trump is Sikander?
(a) Five years.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Two years.
(d) One year.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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)?

3. 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?

4. Which writer does the narrator remark “would not be surprised” at the ascent of Trump (23)?

5. Which of the following is among the books Asma gives the narrator?

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