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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 term “paaya” refers to which of the following?
2. What award does the narrator note his play receives?
3. What award does Sikander win for a second time after ending his real estate endeavors?
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?
5. Of which of the following did the Akhtars have framed photos from travel?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Sikander rail against Naseem after he and the narrator leave Abbottabad?
2. What message does the narrator note is sent by the United States turning against Afghanistan and Iraq in the late 1980s and early 1990s?
3. 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?
4. What does the narrator cite as major disagreements his mother has with the idea of American exceptionalism that his father espouses?
5. What does the narrator note was necessary for him to understand the comments Moroni makes in her class and her letter (xvi-xvii)?
6. In what does the narrator report having seen the good in the United States during his youth?
7. What, other than seeing Latif, does the narrator note softened his mother’s demeanor?
8. With what events listed in the novel’s chronology is Trump involved?
9. What does Fatima expect will be Anjum’s fate, and what actually does happen to Anjum?
10. What does the narrator come to learn is the intent behind questions about whether his play is autobiographical?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Explicate the following simile: “Like his debt load, Trump’s waistline ballooned” (3).
Essay Topic 3
Rind makes the comment that “Friendship’s great. But it never made anyone a billionaire” (127). What does it reveal about the character’s attitude? How does it do so? Does the novel endorse that attitude? How does it do so or fail to do so?
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