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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Changez at the airport upon returning from Manila?
(a) He is put in prison briefly.
(b) He is singled out from his group and detained and questioned.
(c) He is sent back to Pakistan.
(d) Nothing out of the ordinary.

2. How does Erica become injured in Chapter 6?
(a) Tennis.
(b) Tae Kwon Do.
(c) Hiking.
(d) Soccer.

3. What does Changez's manager in Chapter 10 tell him about his work?
(a) He is not delivering and he needs to pull it together.
(b) He is doing alright, but he needs to work faster.
(c) He needs to slow down or he will burn out.
(d) He is doing a great job.

4. What does the American Stranger ask Changez about the waiter in Chapter 8?
(a) Whether he will serve chicken or lamb.
(b) Whether he is wearing a kurta.
(c) Whether he speaks English.
(d) Whether he is praying.

5. In Chapter 7, what does Chagnez tell the American Stranger shocks him looking back on his time in America?
(a) The power of his blinders.
(b) The depth of his love for Jennifer.
(c) The size of his salary.
(d) The hostility of his colleagues towards him.

6. What does Changez regret asking Erica about in Chapter 8?
(a) Her apartment.
(b) Her garden.
(c) Her novel.
(d) Her graduate program.

7. What does Changez do with his feelings about the 9/11 attacks?
(a) Hides them from his colleagues.
(b) Hides them from his students.
(c) Shares them with everyone.
(d) Shares them with his brother.

8. What does Changez tell Erica to do when they have sex for the second time?
(a) Think of herself on a beach somewhere.
(b) Tell him to stop if she wants to stop.
(c) Think of herself as a dolphin.
(d) Pretend he is Chris.

9. Which institution that Changez was associated with in Chapter 8 was not nostalgic at all?
(a) The Richter Organization.
(b) The Fiberglass Factory.
(c) The Mosque.
(d) Underwood Samson.

10. What happens after the end of the project with the cable company?
(a) Changez receives a prorated bonus.
(b) Changez receives a warning that he is on probation.
(c) Changez receives an email from Erica that she is breaking up with him.
(d) Changez receives a threatening letter.

11. What does the stranger in the parking lot of the cable company call Changez?
(a) A "skib."
(b) A "wingnut."
(c) A "moot."
(d) A "fucking Arab."

12. How does Changez realize he is viewing his family home when he comes to visit in Chapter 9?
(a) With the eyes of someone who has become very poor.
(b) With the eyes of a lover.
(c) With the eyes of a foreigner.
(d) With the eyes of a sad man.

13. What scent do Changez and The American Stranger smell in Chapter 6?
(a) Hibiscus.
(b) Orange.
(c) Jasmine.
(d) Rose.

14. What does Changez ask the American Stranger in the end of Chapter 5?
(a) Where he went to college.
(b) What brings him to Lahore and other questions about himself.
(c) Whether he is carrying a gun.
(d) What part of America he is from.

15. What artwork does Changez notice in Jim's apartment in Chapter 8?
(a) Works depicting rivers.
(b) An authentic Rembrandt.
(c) Works depicting naked men.
(d) An authentic Monet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Underwood Samson value above all else as Changez describes it in Chapter 8?

2. What does Jim cook for Changez in Chapter 8?

3. What does Changez think of Erica when he sees her again for the first time after they have sex?

4. Where does Changez have a scar left by surgery?

5. What does Changez deliberately not mention at all to his family in Chapter 9?

(see the answer keys)

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