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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 color hijab does Ramla Awan wear?
2. The comment about “his ceaselessly shifting emotions, his evasions and avowals and disavowals, the steady shedding of his civility” (14) offers examples of which of the following?
3. In the novel, how is it reported that Trump prefers his steaks?
4. The comment that “The Raj was the jewel in His Majesty’s crown” (27) offers an example of which of the following?
5. The term “paaya” refers to which of the following?
Short Essay Questions
1. What message does the narrator note is sent by the United States turning against Afghanistan and Iraq in the late 1980s and early 1990s?
2. To what causes does the narrator ascribe the British decision to afford India and Pakistan independence?
3. What, other than seeing Latif, does the narrator note softened his mother’s demeanor?
4. What does the narrator come to learn is the intent behind questions about whether his play is autobiographical?
5. What reasons does Asma give for disliking The Satanic Verses?
6. What reasons does the narrator give for surprise at Sikander soliciting prostitution?
7. What does Fatima expect will be Anjum’s fate, and what actually does happen to Anjum?
8. What parallels does the narrator draw between his father and Trump when initially discussing their first meeting?
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. In what does the narrator report having seen the good in the United States during his youth?
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
Consider the comment that “America had begun as a colony and that a colony it remained, that is, a place still defined by its plunder, where enrichment was paramount and civil order always an afterthought” (xiii). Is the comment correct? What in the novel and in experience indicates that it is / not? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
Consider the comment that “America had begun as a colony and that a colony it remained, that is, a place still defined by its plunder, where enrichment was paramount and civil order always an afterthought” (xiii). Is the definition of “colony” presented in the comment accurate? What in the novel and in experience indicates that it is / not? How does it do so?
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