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

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

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

4. 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) Hyperbole.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Litotes.
(d) Simile.

5. 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) MBA.
(c) PharmD.
(d) ROTC.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time on Election Day does the narrator call his father?

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. What award does Sikander win for a second time after ending his real estate endeavors?

4. What is the name of the driver Naseem hires to drive the narrator and Sikander?

5. Rooh Afza lassi is which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what properties does Sikander invest when he tries to break into real estate?

2. In what does the narrator report having seen the good in the United States during his youth?

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

4. What does the narrator report valuing in Whitman when he read him initially (xvii)?

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

6. What reasons does the narrator give for his mother not watching the news?

7. What parallels does the narrator draw between his father and Trump when initially discussing their first meeting?

8. To what causes does the narrator ascribe the British decision to afford India and Pakistan independence?

9. With what events listed in the novel’s chronology is Trump involved?

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

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