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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. Outside which town does the driver Naseem hires live?
(a) Hasan Abdal.
(b) Wah Cantt.
(c) Taxila.
(d) Islamabad.

2. Which of the following invitations to speak about his play does the narrator report refusing?
(a) Bill Nye’s show.
(b) Bill Maher’s show.
(c) Larry King’s show.
(d) David Letterman’s show.

3. Who is President of the United States when “Overture: To America” begins?
(a) Bill Clinton.
(b) George H.W. Bush.
(c) Barack Obama.
(d) George W. Bush.

4. The term “zakat” refers to which of the following in the novel?
(a) Money to be distributed to the poor.
(b) Money to be invested in stocks.
(c) Money to be given to the state.
(d) Money to be put into savings.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In which city was the narrator on Election Day 2016?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. In what year does Sikander sit for a real estate investment seminar?

5. In what month does Latif die?

(see the answer key)

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