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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 hospital does Sikander examine Trump for Brugada syndrome?
(a) Mayo Clinic.
(b) St. Jude’s.
(c) Bethlehem.
(d) Mount Sinai.

2. The comment that “he felt something strange in his chest, like a pounding on a distant drum” (7) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Conceit.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Simile.

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

4. In what month does Latif die?
(a) May.
(b) April.
(c) June.
(d) July.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The comment that “Abbottabad is a military town, a kind of Pakistani West Point” (69) offers an example of which of the following?

3. What profession does Muzzammil follow?

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

5. In what year do the Awan’s move to Peshawar?

Short Essay Questions

1. Aside from medical appointments, what contact does Sikander have with Trump?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Asma define the Nero complex?

9. 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?

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

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