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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. The comment that “the man seemed to be turning into an imbecile, his hodgepodge views like mental flatulence, one fetid odor after another” (16) offers an example of which of the following?

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

3. How many first cousins does the narrator report having?

4. Whom does the narrator quote as saying “Never trust the artist. Trust the tale” (25)?

5. Which of the following is among the books Asma gives the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reasons does the narrator give for surprise at Sikander soliciting prostitution?

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

3. Aside from medical appointments, what contact does Sikander have with Trump?

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 reasons does Asma give for disliking The Satanic Verses?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Asma asserts that “A day spent reading is not a great day. But a life spent reading is a wonderful life” (62). Is the assertion correct? What in the novel and in experience says that it is or is not? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Consider Sikander’s comment about “The whole Muslim world. Expecting failure, so failure they get” (29). What does the comment mean? Is that meaning correct? What in the novel and in experience suggests that it is or is not? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Rind makes the comment that “Friendship’s great. But it never made anyone a billionaire” (127). What does it reveal about the character’s attitude? How does it do so? Does the novel endorse that attitude? How does it do so or fail to do so?

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