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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. What profession had Sikander’s father held?
(a) Soldier.
(b) Laborer.
(c) Imam.
(d) Physician.

2. In what year does Sikander last meet Trump?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1997.
(d) 1993.

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

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) “[The] completion of the long-planned advent of the merchant class to the sanctum sanctorum of American power.”
(c) “A vision of himself impossibly enhanced, improbably enlarged, released from the pull of debt or truth or history.”
(d) “A dream that imagines the flourishing of others as nothing more than a road sign.”

5. How long is the letter Moroni writes the narrator following the 11 September 2001 attacks (xvi)?
(a) 2 pages.
(b) 5 pages.
(c) 10 pages.
(d) 1 page.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How much older than Trump is Sikander?

4. In what year does Fatima die?

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

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