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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. How much is the revised estimate for the repair to the narrator’s car in Scranton?

2. Where is the narrator born?

3. In what year does the narrator meet Rind?

4. What is the name of the narrator’s deceased older brother?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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