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

2. 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) ROTC.
(d) PharmD.

3. The term “zamindar” refers to which of the following in the novel?
(a) Impoverished.
(b) Ennobled.
(c) Landowning.
(d) Renting.

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

5. In what year does Latif die?
(a) 1997.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1998.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year do the narrator’s parents meet?

2. In what year does Sikander last meet Trump?

3. In the comments “Sure, fine, yes, they had perpetrated evil and enslavement in their endless plunder of the Indian motherland since the early 1600s—but so what? Were we robots? Did we have to keep repeating the violence” (28), the pronoun “we” refers to which of the following?

4. Who is President of the United States when “Overture: To America” begins?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What writerly insight does the narrator report having had regarding the 2016 presidential election?

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

3. What does Fatima expect will be Anjum’s fate, and what actually does happen to Anjum?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Asma define the Nero complex?

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