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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. To which of the following did Sikander take his family camping?
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. What admonition does Moroni offer the narrator in her letter to him following the 11 September 2001 attacks (xvi)?
4. At what school did the narrator’s great aunt Asma teach?
5. Which of the following does Sikander give as a reason Trump was a preferable candidate for office?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator come to learn is the intent behind questions about whether his play is autobiographical?
2. In what does the narrator report having seen the good in the United States during his youth?
3. With what events listed in the novel’s chronology is Trump involved?
4. What reasons does the narrator give for surprise at Sikander soliciting prostitution?
5. What does Fatima expect will be Anjum’s fate, and what actually does happen to Anjum?
6. Aside from medical appointments, what contact does Sikander have with Trump?
7. To what causes does the narrator ascribe the British decision to afford India and Pakistan independence?
8. What reasons does the narrator give for his mother not watching the news?
9. In what properties does Sikander invest when he tries to break into real estate?
10. What form does Latif’s bent towards charitable work take throughout his medical career?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Consider the comment that “To admit you were wrong meant to show weakness” (11). Is the comment correct? What in the novel and in experience indicates that it is / not? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
The narrator reports his uncle noting that “You cannot make the world as you wish to see it; you cannot keep it the way you want it, not unless you are willing to fight to do it” (75). Does the novel support or deny the position? What in the text suggests it does or does not? How?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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