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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Front Matter and Part One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following teams’ jackets does Anwar note wearing?
(a) Miami Marlins.
(b) Miami Dolphins.
(c) Florida Panthers.
(d) Miami Heat.

2. Which of the following does the novel describe as “intent on milking a public purse that no longer had a solid tax base with which to pay” (82)?
(a) Higher education.
(b) Secondary education.
(c) Trade education.
(d) Primary education.

3. To which of the following is the novel dedicated?
(a) George.
(b) Geoffrey.
(c) Jorge.
(d) Gregory.

4. The comment that it would be better to replace operations “than to try to nurse the emphysemic mafia hold-over out of its intensive care bed and back into a wheelchair” (73) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Simile..
(c) Synecdoche.
(d) Metaphor.

5. How long does the Gnome note Issyk-Kulistan has been independent when he approaches Anwar about becoming an honorary consul for that nation?
(a) Five weeks.
(b) Five years.
(c) Five days.
(d) Five months.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following ages does Anwar note being?

2. The phrase “mentoring Constables Janie Jones and Baz MacIntyre on the banality of evil, the evil of banality, how to tell the difference between faked videos and the real thing, and the best way to keep a sense of perspective” (47) offers an example of which of the following?

3. Blair is revealed to have been on which of the following drugs?

4. Which of the following does Liz note as Blair’s age?

5. Which of the following is noted in the novel as “the oldest human science” (65)?

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