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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. Which of the following countries is represented among the medical students who observe the narrator’s treatment for syphilis?

2. What libation does Emily give the narrator that she has received from Rind?

3. How high a fever does the narrator report running when he dreams of Muhammad in Punjab?

4. To what agency does Rind ascribe the ascent of the Western world over the Islamic?

5. In what year does the narrator meet Asha?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

The narrator remarks that “Serious money was the only path to liberation from the indentured servitude of twenty-first-century lower- and middle-class American life” (153). Does the novel support or deny the remark? What in the text suggests it does or does not? How?

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