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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. At which of the following does the narrator procure a cross?

2. What investment company does Rind found in which the narrator invests?

3. What make and model of car does the narrator report having break down on him?

4. In what year does the narrator report Asha’s father became a citizen of the United States?

5. At which of the following schools does the narrator remark Bork taught?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe Mariam Meriha (137)?

2. What features does the narrator initially ascribe to Rind that mark him as Pakistani, rather than Indian?

3. Why does the narrator report being initially put at ease by the Pennsylvania state trooper who pulls him over?

4. What is the dream technique the narrator reports having learned from Moroni?

5. What reasons does Moroni give to mistrust Freud? What reasons does she note to trust him?

6. What comments does the narrator claim to expect to receive from his parents after leaving the repair shop in Scranton?

7. What overall project does the narrator ascribe to Rind?

8. What associations does the narrator report many interlocutors who ask about his name and background have with India?

9. What factors does the narrator cite as having broken him out of his wealth-induced laziness and indulgence?

10. What decorations are on the walls of the repair shop in Scranton?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the comment that “money comes with its own point of view; what you own, when you own enough of it, starts making you see the world from its perspective” (247, emphasis in original). Is the comment correct? What in the novel and experience suggests that it is or is not? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Explicate the following simile: “Like his debt load, Trump’s waistline ballooned” (3).

Essay Topic 3

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?

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