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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much older than Trump is Sikander?
(a) One year.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Five years.
(d) Two years.

2. In what year does Latif die?
(a) 1998.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1996.

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

4. 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?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Simile.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Conceit.

5. Whom does the narrator quote as saying “Never trust the artist. Trust the tale” (25)?
(a) George Eliot.
(b) T.E. Lawrence.
(c) D.H. Lawrence.
(d) Thomas Hardy.

6. Which of the following refers to Moroni as “the finest mind of her generation” (xiii)?
(a) Norman Mailer.
(b) Norman O. Brown.
(c) Norman O’Brien.
(d) Doc Brown.

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

8. How does the character in the narrator’s play describe “something unexpected and unwelcome, a sense of pride” after the 11 September 2001 attacks (24)?
(a) A “throbbing.”
(b) A “swelling.”
(c) A “surge.”
(d) A “blush.”

9. At what school did the narrator’s great aunt Asma teach?
(a) University of Connecticut.
(b) Brown University.
(c) University of Vermont.
(d) Stanford University.

10. Which of the following is among the books Asma gives the narrator?
(a) A Dying Colonialism.
(b) Year Five of the Algerian Revolution.
(c) Black Skin, White Masks.
(d) The Wretched of the Earth.

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

12. 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) Minnesotans.
(c) Pre-partition Indians.
(d) Muslims.

13. Which of the following is among the books Asma gives the narrator?
(a) Emma.
(b) Sense and Sensibility.
(c) Mansfield Park.
(d) Pride and Prejudice.

14. 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?
(a) Minnesotans.
(b) Pre-partition Indians.
(c) Muslims.
(d) Americans.

15. In which city does Latif secure a position after first coming to the United States?
(a) Trenton.
(b) Atlantic City.
(c) New York City.
(d) Newark.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month does Latif die?

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

3. The term “paaya” refers to which of the following?

4. Which of the following phrases does the narrator use to describe Trump’s ascendancy (23)?

5. What meal did Sikander have with Trump at Fresco by Scotto?

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