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

2. 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 “blush.”
(b) A “throbbing.”
(c) A “swelling.”
(d) A “surge.”

3. The comment that “he felt something strange in his chest, like a pounding on a distant drum” (7) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Simile.
(b) Conceit.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Analogy.

4. What lines does the narrator report taking into his play (50)?
(a) “Taking what we have. Oil, land. Treating us like animals.”
(b) “They run around telling everyone else about human rights. But not for them. Look how they treat their own blacks.”
(c) “Turning us against each other. Making us spill each other’s blood. Just like the British.”
(d) “He’s right. They deserve what they got. And what they’re going to get.”

5. In what year is the narrator born?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1972.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the narrator quote as saying “Never trust the artist. Trust the tale” (25)?

2. 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?

3. The comment that “Abbottabad is a military town, a kind of Pakistani West Point” (69) offers an example of which of the following?

4. What award does the narrator note his play receives?

5. What color hijab does Ramla Awan wear?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator cite as major disagreements his mother has with the idea of American exceptionalism that his father espouses?

2. In what does the narrator report having seen the good in the United States during his youth?

3. What form does Latif’s bent towards charitable work take throughout his medical career?

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

5. What parallels does the narrator draw between his father and Trump when initially discussing their first meeting?

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

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

8. What does Sikander comment to Latif that he cannot do in Pakistan that he can do in the United States, and why does he say he cannot do it there?

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

10. What does the narrator report valuing in Whitman when he read him initially (xvii)?

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