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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters II and III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year do the narrator’s parents meet?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1966.

2. The term “paaya” refers to which of the following?
(a) Shredded beef.
(b) Pickled feet.
(c) Hoof stew.
(d) Cold broth.

3. The comment that “the man seemed to be turning into an imbecile, his hodgepodge views like mental flatulence, one fetid odor after another” (16) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Simile.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Conceit.

4. In what year does Latif die?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1998.
(c) 1996.
(d) 1997.

5. In the comments about who “liked to spend out time yowling for a past that helped us not a whit, a past that only fortified our loftiest delusions and encouraged excuses instead of the work required of us if we were ever to catch up to the rest of the world” (29), the pronoun “we” refers to which of the following?
(a) Pre-partition Indians.
(b) Americans.
(c) Muslims.
(d) Minnesotans.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what program is the student who complained to the administration that Moroni was speaking against the troops by questioning Desert Storm?

2. The comment that “he felt something strange in his chest, like a pounding on a distant drum” (7) offers examples of which of the following?

3. Of which of the following did the Akhtars have framed photos from travel?

4. In the comments “Sure, fine, yes, they had perpetrated evil and enslavement in their endless plunder of the Indian motherland since the early 1600s—but so what? Were we robots? Did we have to keep repeating the violence” (28), the pronoun “we” refers to which of the following?

5. What award does Sikander win for a second time after ending his real estate endeavors?

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