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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The term “paaya” refers to which of the following?
(a) Cold broth.
(b) Pickled feet.
(c) Hoof stew.
(d) Shredded beef.

3. Which of the following does the narrator’s uncle Naseem cite “as proof of his point about the fundamental military basis of great leadership” (76)?
(a) Washington.
(b) Madison.
(c) Jefferson.
(d) Adams.

4. The comment that “Abbottabad is a military town, a kind of Pakistani West Point” (69) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Conceit.
(b) Simile.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Metaphor.

5. The comment that “The Raj was the jewel in His Majesty’s crown” (27) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Conceit.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Simile.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. In what year did Muzzammil immigrate to the San Diego area?

5. How much money does Sikander lose at baccarat in Atlantic City?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sikander rail against Naseem after he and the narrator leave Abbottabad?

2. What does the narrator note was necessary for him to understand the comments Moroni makes in her class and her letter (xvi-xvii)?

3. What reasons does the narrator give for wanting to avoid a detailed account of his father’s infatuation with Trump?

4. What, other than seeing Latif, does the narrator note softened his mother’s demeanor?

5. What conspiracies does the narrator note hearing voiced while visiting family in Abbottabad in 2008?

6. What struggles does Moroni cite as “fires beneath her crucible” in her letter to the narrator following the 11 September 2001 attacks (xvi)?

7. With what events listed in the novel’s chronology is Trump involved?

8. What reasons does the narrator give for his mother not watching the news?

9. In what properties does Sikander invest when he tries to break into real estate?

10. What reasons does the narrator give for surprise at Sikander soliciting prostitution?

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