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

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

3. The term “zamindar” refers to which of the following in the novel?
(a) Renting.
(b) Ennobled.
(c) Impoverished.
(d) Landowning.

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. What color hijab does Ramla Awan wear?
(a) Green.
(b) Black.
(c) Blue.
(d) White.

Short Answer Questions

1. The comment that “the man seemed to be turning into an imbecile, his hodgepodge views like mental flatulence, one fetid odor after another” (16) offers an example of which of the following?

2. What admonition does Moroni offer the narrator in her letter to him following the 11 September 2001 attacks (xvi)?

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

4. In what month does Latif die?

5. Of which of the following did the Akhtars have framed photos from travel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What writerly insight does the narrator report having had regarding the 2016 presidential election?

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

3. What reasons does Asma give for disliking The Satanic Verses?

4. What message does the narrator note is sent by the United States turning against Afghanistan and Iraq in the late 1980s and early 1990s?

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

6. 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?

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

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

9. What does the narrator come to learn is the intent behind questions about whether his play is autobiographical?

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

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