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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Front Matter and Chapter I.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Analogy.
(c) Simile.
(d) Conceit.

2. In what hospital does Sikander examine Trump for Brugada syndrome?
(a) Mayo Clinic.
(b) St. Jude’s.
(c) Mount Sinai.
(d) Bethlehem.

3. Which of the following phrases does the narrator use to describe Trump’s ascendancy (23)?
(a) “A dream that imagines the flourishing of others as nothing more than a road sign.”
(b) “A man delivered from consequence itself into pure self-absorption.”
(c) “A vision of himself impossibly enhanced, improbably enlarged, released from the pull of debt or truth or history.”
(d) “[The] completion of the long-planned advent of the merchant class to the sanctum sanctorum of American power.”

4. The comment that “he felt something strange in his chest, like a pounding on a distant drum” (7) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Simile.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Conceit.

5. Of which of the following did the Akhtars have framed photos from travel?
(a) Locust Grove.
(b) Fallingwater.
(c) Mount Vernon.
(d) Monticello.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. How much older than Trump is Sikander?

5. To which of the following did Sikander take his family camping?

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