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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. The comment that “Abbottabad is a military town, a kind of Pakistani West Point” (69) offers an example of which of the following?
2. The comment about “the disgusting social and military project that would come to bloom in Syria and Iraq like toxic desert dogbane” (77) offers an example of which of the following?
3. How much older than Trump is Sikander?
4. Which of the following phrases does the narrator use to describe Trump’s ascendancy (23)?
5. In what year does Sikander first meet Trump?
Short Essay Questions
1. To what causes does the narrator ascribe the British decision to afford India and Pakistan independence?
2. What does the narrator cite as major disagreements his mother has with the idea of American exceptionalism that his father espouses?
3. What conspiracies does the narrator note hearing voiced while visiting family in Abbottabad in 2008?
4. What does Fatima expect will be Anjum’s fate, and what actually does happen to Anjum?
5. What does the narrator report valuing in Whitman when he read him initially (xvii)?
6. What reasons does Asma give for disliking The Satanic Verses?
7. With what events listed in the novel’s chronology is Trump involved?
8. In what does the narrator report having seen the good in the United States during his youth?
9. Aside from medical appointments, what contact does Sikander have with Trump?
10. In what properties does Sikander invest when he tries to break into real estate?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Rind quotes Norbert Elias as remarking that “The established majority takes its we-image from a minority of its best, and shapes a they-image of the despised outsiders from a minority of their worst” (139). Does the novel agree with the sentiment? What in the text asserts that it does or does not? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
The narrator asks about his mother “In expecting what she couldn’t give me, hadn’t I rejected what she could” (219)? Is the answer “yes” or “no?” What in the novel indicates the answer? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
Consider the comment that “money comes with its own point of view; what you own, when you own enough of it, starts making you see the world from its perspective” (247, emphasis in original). Is the comment correct? What in the novel and experience suggests that it is or is not? How does it do so?
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