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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. How much money does Fatima leave to the narrator upon her death?

2. At which of the following does the narrator procure a cross?

3. How much are the narrator’s shares in Rind’s investment company worth when he sells them?

4. How large a stone is on the ring the narrator buys to propose to Asha?

5. Which of the following institutions does the narrator report Asha attended?

Short Essay Questions

1. What decorations are on the walls of the repair shop in Scranton?

2. What reasons does the narrator give for the SEC investigation of Rind’s investment company?

3. How does the narrator describe Mariam Meriha (137)?

4. What comments does the narrator claim to expect to receive from his parents after leaving the repair shop in Scranton?

5. What is the dream technique the narrator reports having learned from Moroni?

6. What overall project does the narrator ascribe to Rind?

7. Why does the narrator report being initially put at ease by the Pennsylvania state trooper who pulls him over?

8. Why does the university dean on Rind’s foundation board oppose the narrator joining said board?

9. What does the narrator report as shocking in his review of the transcripts of proceedings against Rind’s investment company?

10. What associations does the narrator report many interlocutors who ask about his name and background have with India?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

While conversing with the narrator, a Pennsylvania state trooper remarks that “when [one of the leaders of the 11 September 2001 attacks] returned his rental car on September ninth, he called the rental agency to tell them the oil light was on. Can you believe that? He didn’t care about the three thousand people they killed, but he cared about the next person driving the car” (93). What accounts for the disjunction? What in the book and in experience tells you that it does? 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

Consider the comment that “To admit you were wrong meant to show weakness” (11). Is the comment correct? What in the novel and in experience indicates that it is / not? How does it do so?

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