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

2. 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) Rhyme.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Chiasmus.
(d) Anaphora.

3. Which of the following invitations to speak about his play does the narrator report refusing?
(a) Nightline.
(b) Fox and Friends.
(c) Sesame Street.
(d) The Daily Show.

4. In what year do the narrator’s parents meet?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1964.

5. To which of the following did Sikander take his family camping?
(a) The Davis Mountains.
(b) The Adirondacks.
(c) The Tetons.
(d) The Appalachians.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is the name of Muzzammil’s wife?

2. Of which of the following did the Akhtars have framed photos from travel?

3. In what program is the student who complained to the administration that Moroni was speaking against the troops by questioning Desert Storm?

4. In what year does Sikander last meet Trump?

5. In what year is the narrator born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reasons does Asma give for disliking The Satanic Verses?

2. What does Sikander comment to Latif that he cannot do in Pakistan that he can do in the United States, and why does he say he cannot do it there?

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

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

5. What message does the narrator note is sent by the United States turning against Afghanistan and Iraq in the late 1980s and early 1990s?

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

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

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

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

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

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