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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 class are Amir and Emily in, based on their furnishings?
(a) Wealthy elite.
(b) Lower middle class.
(c) Lower class.
(d) Upper middle class.

2. How old is Emily?
(a) Early 30s.
(b) Early 40s.
(c) Late 20s.
(d) Late 30s.

3. Who is represented by the statue on the mantel piece?
(a) Maya.
(b) Ganesh.
(c) Siva.
(d) Sita.

4. What does Amir think will cause readers of the text he is reading to will look at, and jump to conclusions about him?
(a) His name.
(b) His words.
(c) Imam Fareed’s tone.
(d) His firm.

5. What is Amir most concerned people will think of his defense of Imam Fareed?
(a) That Amir is not intelligent.
(b) That Amir is a terrorist.
(c) That Amir is Muslim.
(d) That Amir is anti-American.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Emily concerned about the statue of Siva Mort gave Amir?

2. How does Emily say Amir’s mother treated her?

3. How much time has gone by between Scene One and Scene Two?

4. What does Isaac think about Emily’s work now, in Scene Two?

5. How did Amir’s mother drive home her point about Rivkah to Amir?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has Emily’s family handled her choice of men?

2. What is Amir’s relationship with the painting his wife’s painting is based on?

3. What do we learn about Amir and Emily’s relationship when Emily tells Amir that she happens to know he “likes it a little fucked up,” meaning that there is something odd about painting him after a painting of a slave (9)?

4. How does Emily appropriate Islamic art?

5. What is the archetype for Amir Kapoor’s character?

6. How does “submission” factor into Islamic art, according to Emily in her discussion with Isaac?

7. How has Isaac’s mind recently changed about Emily’s work, as seen in Scene 2?

8. Explain the difference between earnestness and irony as Emily describes it in her discussion with Isaac.

9. What can we understand about Abe by his appearance when he appears in Amir and Emily’s apartment?

10. What do we learn about Amir’s career when the phone rings, interrupting the painting session?

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