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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. In what year does Sikander first meet Trump?

2. At what time on Election Day does the narrator call his father?

3. To which vice-president does the narrator compare Latif?

4. To whom does the narrator ascribe the comments in his play that seem to praise or justify the 11 September 2001 attacks?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the narrator cite as major disagreements his mother has with the idea of American exceptionalism that his father espouses?

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

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. In what properties does Sikander invest when he tries to break into real estate?

6. What struggles does Moroni cite as “fires beneath her crucible” in her letter to the narrator following the 11 September 2001 attacks (xvi)?

7. How does Asma define the Nero complex?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the end, who is the protagonist of the novel—that is, who is the novel really about, Ayad or Sikander? What in the text tells you so? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

An epigraph typically bears in on the text it precedes. Consider the epigraph at the beginning of “Of Love and Death,” Winnicott’s comment that “It is joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found” (175). What relation does the quotation have to the content of the chapter? What in the text indicates that relationship? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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