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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 color hijab does Ramla Awan wear?
(a) White.
(b) Blue.
(c) Black.
(d) Green.

2. Which writer does the narrator remark “would not be surprised” at the ascent of Trump (23)?
(a) Dumas.
(b) De Tocqueville.
(c) De Sade.
(d) Hugo.

3. 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) Analogy.
(b) Simile.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Conceit.

4. In what year does Sikander sit for a real estate investment seminar?
(a) 1981.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1983.

5. The term “paaya” refers to which of the following?
(a) Pickled feet.
(b) Hoof stew.
(c) Shredded beef.
(d) Cold broth.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. What profession had Sikander’s father held?

4. In what year does Sikander first meet Trump?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Asma define the Nero complex?

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