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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Five: Chapter VIII and Back Matter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following medications does the narrator’s mother use to ease the pain of her terminal cancer?
(a) Vicodin.
(b) Tylenol III.
(c) Codeine.
(d) Fentanyl.

2. In the novel, how is it reported that Trump prefers his steaks?
(a) Medium.
(b) Rare.
(c) Blue rare.
(d) Well-done.

3. What kind of pencil does the narrator report using for his initial dream exercise?
(a) Palomino ForestChoice.
(b) Dixon Ticonderoga.
(c) Bic Mechanical.
(d) Staedtler Norica.

4. The comment that “The Prophet’s Safiya was supposedly a very beautiful woman, which is not exactly what I would have said of the Safiya I knew, at least not before saying other things about her” (55) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Simile.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Litotes.
(d) Hyperbole.

5. Which of the following does the narrator call “the last of [his mother’s] edible pleasures” (217)?
(a) Naan.
(b) Ghee.
(c) Pakora.
(d) Laddoo.

Short Answer Questions

1. The sentence “Deluded admonitions, however true; futile tenderness, however comforting” (120) offers examples of which of the following?

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

3. Which of the following institutions does the narrator report Asha attended?

4. How long does the narrator report being in a relationship with Asha?

5. Which of the following does the narrator report meeting at Rind’s foundation events?

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