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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. Which of the following does Sikander give as a reason Trump was a preferable candidate for office?
(a) Lower taxes.
(b) Lower taxes.
(c) More compassion.
(d) Greater freedom of travel.

2. The comment that “The Raj was the jewel in His Majesty’s crown” (27) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Simile.
(b) Analogy.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Conceit.

3. Whom does the narrator quote as saying “Never trust the artist. Trust the tale” (25)?
(a) Thomas Hardy.
(b) T.E. Lawrence.
(c) George Eliot.
(d) D.H. Lawrence.

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?
(a) Americans.
(b) Muslims.
(c) Pre-partition Indians.
(d) Minnesotans.

5. To which vice-president does the narrator compare Latif?
(a) Mike Pence.
(b) Al Gore.
(c) Joe Biden.
(d) Dick Cheney.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what school did the narrator’s great aunt Asma teach?

2. Which of the following phrases does the narrator use to describe Trump’s ascendancy (23)?

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

4. The comment that “Difficulty had been the flint stone against which her powers of analysis were sharpened” (xvi) offers an example of which of the following?

5. In what grade is the narrator in 1979?

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