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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Conceit.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Simile.

4. Which of the following invitations to speak about his play does the narrator report refusing?
(a) Larry King’s show.
(b) Bill Maher’s show.
(c) Bill Nye’s show.
(d) David Letterman’s show.

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

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

7. What color hijab does Ramla Awan wear?
(a) Green.
(b) White.
(c) Blue.
(d) Black.

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

9. At what school did the narrator’s great aunt Asma teach?
(a) University of Connecticut.
(b) University of Vermont.
(c) Brown University.
(d) Stanford University.

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

11. 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) Analogy.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Conceit.
(d) Simile.

12. 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.

13. What profession does Muzzammil follow?
(a) Biochemist.
(b) Electrical engineer.
(c) Neurologist.
(d) Street musician.

14. In what year did Muzzammil immigrate to the San Diego area?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1974.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What meal did Sikander have with Trump at Fresco by Scotto?

2. The comment that “The Raj was the jewel in His Majesty’s crown” (27) offers an example of which of the following?

3. What time is Trump’s appointment with Sikander?

4. The term “zamindar” refers to which of the following in the novel?

5. How does the character in the narrator’s play describe “something unexpected and unwelcome, a sense of pride” after the 11 September 2001 attacks (24)?

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