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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 happens to Changez and his colleagues when they assess the cable company in New Jersey?
(a) Changez gets hurt in the building.
(b) The workers there try to sabotage their assessment.
(c) They can not complete the assignment.
(d) Changez quits in the middle of the assignment.

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

3. What does Erica's mother suggest doing in the aftermath of 9/11?
(a) Leaving the city for a while.
(b) Taking a vacation.
(c) Getting a new job.
(d) Moving permanently.

4. What does Changez remember seeing everywhere in the aftermath of 9/11?
(a) Flags.
(b) Diamonds.
(c) Headbands.
(d) Bracelets.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the American Stranger ask Changez about the waiter in Chapter 8?

2. How does Changez feel his colleagues view the change in his appearance when he returns to New York from Lahore?

3. What does the site of the 9/11 attacks come to be called?

4. What happens after the end of the project with the cable company?

5. Who tells Changez that his beard is not going over well at the office?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Changez's parents react when he says he wants to stay longer in Lahore in Chapter 9?

2. How does Changez feel about his own reaction to the 9/11 attacks?

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

4. Where does Changez find Erica in Chapter 9?

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

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

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

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

9. In Chapter 6, what does Changez find changed about Erica when he sees her again after his trip to the Philippines?

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

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