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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. Which of the following is among the books Asma gives the narrator?
2. In what year do the narrator’s parents meet?
3. What color hijab does Ramla Awan wear?
4. Which of the following invitations to speak about his play does the narrator report refusing?
5. The comment about “his ceaselessly shifting emotions, his evasions and avowals and disavowals, the steady shedding of his civility” (14) offers examples of which of the following?
Short Essay Questions
1. What message does the narrator note is sent by the United States turning against Afghanistan and Iraq in the late 1980s and early 1990s?
2. Aside from medical appointments, what contact does Sikander have with Trump?
3. How does Asma define the Nero complex?
4. What parallels does the narrator draw between his father and Trump when initially discussing their first meeting?
5. What reasons does the narrator give for his mother not watching the news?
6. What does the narrator come to learn is the intent behind questions about whether his play is autobiographical?
7. What reasons does Asma give for disliking The Satanic Verses?
8. What writerly insight does the narrator report having had regarding the 2016 presidential election?
9. In what properties does Sikander invest when he tries to break into real estate?
10. What does the narrator cite as major disagreements his mother has with the idea of American exceptionalism that his father espouses?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Consider the following comment: “As ever, interpretation has more to do with the one interpreting than the one being interpreted” (25). Is the comment true or not? What in the novel and in experience suggests that it is or is not? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
Consider the quote from Montaigne’s “Of Experience” the narrator presents: “I take it for true that dreams are honest reflections of our inclinations; but there is art to making sense of them” (104). What is meant by the quote? What from the narrator indicates that meaning? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
Anjum makes the comment that “Men love to fight. They want to fight. They need to fight. And what’s complex are the reasons they come up with to do the thing they really want, which is just to keep killing each other” (44). Does the novel support or deny the comment? What in the text says so? How does it say so?
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