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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. At what school did the narrator’s great aunt Asma teach?
2. In what year is the narrator born?
3. At what time on Election Day does the narrator call his father?
4. To which vice-president does the narrator compare Latif?
5. How does the character in the narrator’s play describe “something unexpected and unwelcome, a sense of pride” after the 11 September 2001 attacks (24)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What struggles does Moroni cite as “fires beneath her crucible” in her letter to the narrator following the 11 September 2001 attacks (xvi)?
2. What does the narrator come to learn is the intent behind questions about whether his play is autobiographical?
3. With what events listed in the novel’s chronology is Trump involved?
4. What conspiracies does the narrator note hearing voiced while visiting family in Abbottabad in 2008?
5. To what causes does the narrator ascribe the British decision to afford India and Pakistan independence?
6. What reasons does the narrator give for surprise at Sikander soliciting prostitution?
7. 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?
8. What does the narrator report valuing in Whitman when he read him initially (xvii)?
9. What does Fatima expect will be Anjum’s fate, and what actually does happen to Anjum?
10. Aside from medical appointments, what contact does Sikander have with Trump?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
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 reports his uncle noting that “You cannot make the world as you wish to see it; you cannot keep it the way you want it, not unless you are willing to fight to do it” (75). Does the novel support or deny the position? What in the text suggests it does or does not? How?
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