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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Erica tell Changez she has completed when he visits her apartment for dinner?
(a) Her master's degree.
(b) Her painting.
(c) Her dance class.
(d) Her manuscript.

2. What kind of sweets come with the tea for Changez and the American Stranger?
(a) Jalebis.
(b) Beignets.
(c) Donuts.
(d) Cookies.

3. Where does Changez want to work when he graduates from college?
(a) Bank of America.
(b) Hinterlands.
(c) J.P. Morgan.
(d) Underwood Samson & Company.

4. Where do Changez and Erica go for a picnic?
(a) Mantuak.
(b) Central Park.
(c) Long Island.
(d) The Bronx.

5. What does the girl Changez likes tell Changez he gives off a strong sense of in Chapter 2?
(a) Confidence.
(b) Failure.
(c) Home.
(d) Competence.

6. Where does the American Stranger guess that Changez attended college?
(a) Yale.
(b) Princeton.
(c) University of Pennsylvania.
(d) Harvard.

7. Which poets does Changez remember his mother quoting?
(a) Finch and Hollow.
(b) Gaines and Ritter.
(c) Faiz and Ghalib.
(d) Rumi and Straub.

8. How does Changez describe the waiter's appearance at the cafe in Lahore?
(a) Menacing.
(b) Unkempt.
(c) Burly.
(d) Fit.

9. When does Changez find himself staring at the girl he likes?
(a) When she dances.
(b) When she swims.
(c) When she sings.
(d) When she sunbathes topless.

10. What kind of company does Changez assess in Manila?
(a) A music record business.
(b) A pet food company.
(c) A publishing house.
(d) A cable company.

11. What does the job interviewer ask Changez to do as a test in Chapter 1?
(a) Estimate a company's value.
(b) Come up with a new name for himself.
(c) Tell him how much money he has saved.
(d) Do complicated writing prompts.

12. What does Central Park remind Changez of?
(a) The fields outside of London.
(b) His farm at home in Pakistan.
(c) The foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
(d) Family picnics in Nathia Galli.

13. What do the locals in Lahore treasure, according to Changez, in Chapter 3?
(a) Their dancers.
(b) The last days of spring.
(c) The winter.
(d) Their cricket players.

14. What is one of the most expensive districts of Lahore?
(a) Gulberg.
(b) Hindelberg.
(c) Riha.
(d) Punjab.

15. Who rides in the limousine with Jim on the way to the company's summer party?
(a) Wainwright and Jennifer.
(b) Henley and Riley.
(c) Changez and Riley.
(d) Changez and Wainwright.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the house where the company's summer party is being held remind Changez of?

2. How does Changez momentarily feel about his colleague in the limousine in Manila?

3. What is the American Stranger frightened of in Chapter 1 regarding Changez?

4. What major historical event happens when Changez is in Manila?

5. Who interviews Changez from the company he badly wants to work for?

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