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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 anger surrounding them.
(c) The symbolism of them.
(d) The suspicion surrounding them.

3. What does Erica say she thinks about Changez when he talks about his home?
(a) He seems angry.
(b) He seems sad.
(c) He never wants to talk about his home.
(d) He comes more alive.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Erica want to show Changez in Chapter 6 that is intimate?

2. What does the American Stranger ask about dinner in Chapter 9?

3. What makes Changez especially sad when he meets Erica again in Chapter 9?

4. How does Erica become injured in Chapter 6?

5. When does Changez go to Lahore for a visit?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Changez feel at first when visiting Pakistan and his family in Chapter 9?

2. Why does Changez encourage the American Stranger to eat with his hands at dinner?

3. In Chapter 6, what scent does Changez point out to the American Stranger, and why?

4. How does business and Underwood Samson change following 9/11?

5. In Chapter 8, what parallels does Changez draw between his situation with Erica and what is happening in America?

6. How do people treat Changez differently after he grows his beard in Chapter 9?

7. What happens to Changez when he gets back to New York City following the 9/11 attacks?

8. How does Changez think the American Stranger greets his revelations about his conduct with Erica?

9. In Chapter 8, why is Changez worried about his own country?

10. In Chapter 8, what changes does Jim see in Changez?

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