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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. Which writer does the narrator remark “would not be surprised” at the ascent of Trump (23)?
(a) De Tocqueville.
(b) De Sade.
(c) Hugo.
(d) Dumas.

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

3. Which of the following phrases does the narrator use to describe Trump’s ascendancy (23)?
(a) “A vision of himself impossibly enhanced, improbably enlarged, released from the pull of debt or truth or history.”
(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 man delivered from consequence itself into pure self-absorption.”

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

5. What position does Sikander take on after ending his real estate endeavors?
(a) Professor of clinical cardiology.
(b) Private practice physician.
(c) Professor of clinical psychology.
(d) Professor emeritus.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is the letter Moroni writes the narrator following the 11 September 2001 attacks (xvi)?

2. What profession had Sikander’s father held?

3. In what year does Fatima die?

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

5. In what year does Sikander first meet Trump?

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