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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How long is the letter Moroni writes the narrator following the 11 September 2001 attacks (xvi)?
2. At what time on Election Day does the narrator call his father?
3. In what year do the Awan’s move to Peshawar?
4. What is the name of the driver’s son whom Sikander treats?
5. In what year is the narrator born?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reasons does the narrator give for wanting to avoid a detailed account of his father’s infatuation with Trump?
2. To what causes does the narrator ascribe the British decision to afford India and Pakistan independence?
3. Why does Sikander rail against Naseem after he and the narrator leave Abbottabad?
4. How does Asma define the Nero complex?
5. With what events listed in the novel’s chronology is Trump involved?
6. What does the narrator report valuing in Whitman when he read him initially (xvii)?
7. What does Fatima expect will be Anjum’s fate, and what actually does happen to Anjum?
8. 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?
9. What reasons does Asma give for disliking The Satanic Verses?
10. What form does Latif’s bent towards charitable work take throughout his medical career?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Anjum makes the comment that “Men love to fight. They want to fight. They need to fight. And what’s complex are the reasons they come up with to do the thing they really want, which is just to keep killing each other” (44). Does the novel support or deny the comment? What in the text says so? How does it say so?
Essay Topic 2
The narrator asks about his mother “In expecting what she couldn’t give me, hadn’t I rejected what she could” (219)? Is the answer “yes” or “no?” What in the novel indicates the answer? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
The narrator notes dreaming of his grandmother “picking fruit in a pomegranate grove” and falling the night before she died of a heart attack (192). Explicate the imagery of the dream.
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