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

3. What meal did Sikander have with Trump at Fresco by Scotto?
(a) Veal parmigiana.
(b) Lasagna.
(c) Linguini alfredo.
(d) Spaghetti and meatballs.

4. In the comments “Sure, fine, yes, they had perpetrated evil and enslavement in their endless plunder of the Indian motherland since the early 1600s—but so what? Were we robots? Did we have to keep repeating the violence” (28), the pronoun “we” refers to which of the following?
(a) Americans.
(b) Pre-partition Indians.
(c) Minnesotans.
(d) Muslims.

5. In what year does the narrator note Malala received a Nobel prize?
(a) 2013.
(b) 2014.
(c) 2012.
(d) 2011.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the comments about who “liked to spend out time yowling for a past that helped us not a whit, a past that only fortified our loftiest delusions and encouraged excuses instead of the work required of us if we were ever to catch up to the rest of the world” (29), the pronoun “we” refers to which of the following?

2. In what year do the Awan’s move to Peshawar?

3. How much older than Trump is Sikander?

4. Which writer does the narrator remark “would not be surprised” at the ascent of Trump (23)?

5. At what time on Election Day does the narrator call his father?

(see the answer key)

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