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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. The sentence “The personal theme for the period ahead was embodiment; if life was a school, it was time to take the curriculum” (185) offers an example of which of the following?

2. The sentence “Deluded admonitions, however true; futile tenderness, however comforting” (120) offers examples of which of the following?

3. What does the narrator assert is the location of the New Khalwati Order?

4. Which of the following does the narrator receive as a gift for his forty-second birthday?

5. How much are the narrator’s shares in Rind’s investment company worth when he sells them?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What agencies does the narrator deny led to his wealth?

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

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

7. What decorations are on the walls of 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. What features does the narrator initially ascribe to Rind that mark him as Pakistani, rather than Indian?

10. What comments does the narrator claim to expect to receive from his parents after leaving 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

An epigraph typically bears in on the text it precedes. Consider the epigraph at the beginning of “Of Love and Death,” Winnicott’s comment that “It is joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found” (175). What relation does the quotation have to the content of the chapter? What in the text indicates that relationship? How does it 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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