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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Changez feel he is doing in New York, where the opposite is happening to his family in Lahore?
(a) Moving up in the world, whereas they are moving down.
(b) Doing meaningful work, whereas they are doing mundane work.
(c) Educating himself, whereas they are becoming more ignorant.
(d) Making friends, whereas they are losing friends.

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

3. What kind of charm does Changez think his apartment might have?
(a) Gritty.
(b) Literary.
(c) Bohemian.
(d) Old world.

4. What does Changez's mother do when he comes to the house to visit at first?
(a) Makes him sleep outside.
(b) Gives him malaria medication.
(c) Twirls a hundred-rupee note around his head.
(d) Feeds him only bread and chocolate.

5. Who is the head of the company Changez evaluates in Chapter 10?
(a) Jordeo.
(b) Frederica.
(c) Juan-Bautista.
(d) Jose.

6. What does Changez use to threaten the stranger who calls him an epithet in Chapter 8?
(a) A gun.
(b) A hand weight.
(c) A knife.
(d) A tire iron.

7. What does Changez say he was caught up in in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks?
(a) The sadness of them.
(b) The symbolism of them.
(c) The suspicion surrounding them.
(d) The anger surrounding them.

8. What does Changez observe is putting the American Stranger ill at ease in the start of Chapter 8?
(a) The painting.
(b) The music.
(c) The breeze.
(d) The waiter.

9. Where does Changez have a scar left by surgery?
(a) His elbow.
(b) His knee.
(c) His hand.
(d) His eye.

10. What does Changez deliberately not mention at all to his family in Chapter 9?
(a) Erica.
(b) Princeton.
(c) His financial problems.
(d) Underwood Samson.

11. 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 sad man.
(c) With the eyes of a foreigner.
(d) With the eyes of a lover.

12. When does Erica cry for the first time in front of Changez?
(a) When she says she was engaged to Chris.
(b) When he yells at her.
(c) When they try to have sex.
(d) When he tells her how he really feels about 9/11.

13. What does Changez tell the American Stranger about the night they are sharing at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) It is a night of unusual cold in Lahore.
(b) It is a night of some importance.
(c) It is a night that reminds him of an earlier night months before.
(d) It is a night of unusual heat in Lahore.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Changez's mother tell him to do before he leaves Lahore for America?

2. What does Changez regret asking Erica about in Chapter 8?

3. What kind of car did Changez used to drive as a youth in Lahore?

4. What movie does the footage of American soldiers in Afghanistan remind Changez of?

5. What does Changez remember seeing everywhere in the aftermath of 9/11?

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