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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 award does Sikander win for a second time after ending his real estate endeavors?
2. 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?
3. The comment that “Difficulty had been the flint stone against which her powers of analysis were sharpened” (xvi) offers an example of which of the following?
4. In what year does the narrator report winning a Pulitzer?
5. What color hijab does Ramla Awan wear?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator note was necessary for him to understand the comments Moroni makes in her class and her letter (xvi-xvii)?
2. What does the narrator cite as major disagreements his mother has with the idea of American exceptionalism that his father espouses?
3. Why does Sikander rail against Naseem after he and the narrator leave Abbottabad?
4. In what does the narrator report having seen the good in the United States during his youth?
5. What does the narrator report valuing in Whitman when he read him initially (xvii)?
6. What reasons does the narrator give for surprise at Sikander soliciting prostitution?
7. What parallels does the narrator draw between his father and Trump when initially discussing their first meeting?
8. What writerly insight does the narrator report having had regarding the 2016 presidential election?
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 does the narrator come to learn is the intent behind questions about whether his play is autobiographical?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explicate the following simile: “Like his debt load, Trump’s waistline ballooned” (3).
Essay Topic 2
The narrator remarks that “Serious money was the only path to liberation from the indentured servitude of twenty-first-century lower- and middle-class American life” (153). Does the novel support or deny the remark? What in the text suggests it does or does not? How?
Essay Topic 3
Rind quotes Norbert Elias as remarking that “The established majority takes its we-image from a minority of its best, and shapes a they-image of the despised outsiders from a minority of their worst” (139). Does the novel agree with the sentiment? What in the text asserts that it does or does not? How does it do so?
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