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

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

3. What is the name of the driver’s son whom Sikander treats?

4. In what year does the narrator report starting to write the book?

5. How long is the letter Moroni writes the narrator following the 11 September 2001 attacks (xvi)?

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

3. What does the narrator come to learn is the intent behind questions about whether his play is autobiographical?

4. What does the narrator note was necessary for him to understand the comments Moroni makes in her class and her letter (xvi-xvii)?

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

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

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

8. What does Fatima expect will be Anjum’s fate, and what actually does happen to Anjum?

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 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

What function is served by the paratextual shift from a typical prose layout to italics that occurs between “Langford v. Reliant; or, How My Father’s American Story Ends” and “Free Speech: A Coda?” How is it accomplished?

Essay Topic 2

Consider the following comment: “As ever, interpretation has more to do with the one interpreting than the one being interpreted” (25). Is the comment true or not? What in the novel and in experience suggests that it is or is not? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Explicate the following simile: “Like his debt load, Trump’s waistline ballooned” (3).

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