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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. How much money does Sikander lose at baccarat in Atlantic City?
(a) $10,000.
(b) $2,500.
(c) $7,500.
(d) $5,000.

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

3. What award does Sikander win for a second time after ending his real estate endeavors?
(a) Lifetime Achievement.
(b) Investigator of the Year.
(c) First Place.
(d) Father of the Year.

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

5. 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) Conceit.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Metaphor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Sikander give as a reason Trump was a preferable candidate for office?

2. In what year does the narrator report starting to write the book?

3. In what year do the narrator’s parents meet?

4. In what year does Sikander first meet Trump?

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

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