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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. About which of the following groups does the narrator’s taxi driver in Scranton wax nostalgic?

2. For which of the following is Asha working when the narrator meets her?

3. How much does the narrator report paying for transcripts of the depositions in Rind’s investment company’s court case?

4. In what year does the narrator meet Rind?

5. How much money does Fatima leave to the narrator upon her death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reasons does the narrator give for the SEC investigation of Rind’s investment company?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does the narrator report as shocking in his review of the transcripts of proceedings against Rind’s investment company?

9. Why does the university dean on Rind’s foundation board oppose the narrator joining said board?

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

What function is served by the paratextual shift from a typical prose layout to the screenplay layout that occurs during Sikander’s trial? How is it accomplished?

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