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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Rooh Afza lassi is which of the following?

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

3. At what school did the narrator’s great aunt Asma teach?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What form does Latif’s bent towards charitable work take throughout his medical career?

2. What does the narrator cite as major disagreements his mother has with the idea of American exceptionalism that his father espouses?

3. Why does Sikander rail against Naseem after he and the narrator leave Abbottabad?

4. What conspiracies does the narrator note hearing voiced while visiting family in Abbottabad in 2008?

5. What, other than seeing Latif, does the narrator note softened his mother’s demeanor?

6. What reasons does the narrator give for wanting to avoid a detailed account of his father’s infatuation with Trump?

7. What does the narrator come to learn is the intent behind questions about whether his play is autobiographical?

8. What struggles does Moroni cite as “fires beneath her crucible” in her letter to the narrator following the 11 September 2001 attacks (xvi)?

9. What does the narrator note was necessary for him to understand the comments Moroni makes in her class and her letter (xvi-xvii)?

10. What reasons does the narrator give for surprise at Sikander soliciting prostitution?

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