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

2. What admonition does Moroni offer the narrator in her letter to him following the 11 September 2001 attacks (xvi)?

3. What award does the narrator note his play receives?

4. In what year is the narrator born?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Asma define the Nero complex?

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

3. To what causes does the narrator ascribe the British decision to afford India and Pakistan independence?

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

5. What writerly insight does the narrator report having had regarding the 2016 presidential election?

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

7. What conspiracies does the narrator note hearing voiced while visiting family in Abbottabad in 2008?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the quote from Montaigne’s “Of Experience” the narrator presents: “I take it for true that dreams are honest reflections of our inclinations; but there is art to making sense of them” (104). What is meant by the quote? What from the narrator indicates that meaning? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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