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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 does Sikander last meet Trump?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1997.
(d) 1991.

2. To whom does the narrator ascribe the comments in his play that seem to praise or justify the 11 September 2001 attacks?
(a) Fatima.
(b) Riaz.
(c) Sikander.
(d) Latif.

3. In what year does the narrator report starting to write the book?
(a) 2016.
(b) 2015.
(c) 2017.
(d) 2018.

4. How much older than Trump is Sikander?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Two years.
(c) Five years.
(d) One year.

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) Minnesotans.
(c) Americans.
(d) Muslims.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which city does Latif secure a position after first coming to the United States?

2. In what year does the narrator report winning a Pulitzer?

3. Which of the following invitations to speak about his play does the narrator report refusing?

4. In what year is the narrator born?

5. The term “paaya” refers to which of the following?

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