The Reluctant Fundamentalist Quizzes

The Reluctant Fundamentalist Quiz 1

1 Changez is disturbed by TV reportage of American bombing of which country?

Pakistan

India

Iraq

Afghanistan
2 Where is the waiter from?

India

Northwest Pakistan

Eastern Pakistan

Afghanistan
3 What is the waiter actually doing when the American thinks he is praying?

Reciting the menu

Speaking in code to Changez

Joking about the American

Reciting a poem
4 What happens after the night Erica and Changez make love?

She leaves that night.

They have breakfast together.

She leaves at dawn.

She spends the week with him.
5 Who says "Erica has told you about her history, yes?"

Erica's mother

The nurse

Erica's father

Chris
6 What is Erica taking drugs for?

Eating disorder

Sports

Insomnia

Focus problems
7 Erica seems to be disappearing into what?

Grief

Numbness

Indifference

Nostalgia
8 What is Old Anarkali named after?

A courtesan

A country

A goddess

A mythical animal
9 What does Changez say the American man is taking out at the end?

A knife

A card-holder

A pistol

A mirror
10 Whom do Changez and the American man see following them?

Their waiter

Erica

An assassin

An American
11 Who is a particularly polite character?

Erica

The American man

Jim

Changez
12 Who is a Vice President at Underwood Samson?

Changez

Sherman

Erica's father

Jim
13 Where is Valparaiso?

Argentina

Chile

Brazil

Peru
14 Why is Valparaiso a declining city?

The Panama Canal

Overpopulation

American takeover

Disease
15 What is one thing Pakistan shares with Afghanistan?

Language

Used to be the same country

Geography

Religion
16 Where does Changez send some of his money?

To Erica's family

To Erica

To his family

Investments
17 Whose house does Changez visit in Valparaiso?

Bolano

Marquez

Neruda

Borges
18 Where does Changez get heckled by two men?

Pennsylvania

New Jersey

New York

Delaware
19 When does Changez first go back home to Pakistan?

New Year's

Around Christmas

September 11

The year after September 11
20 What feature of Erica's body does Changez notice often?

Hips

Muscles

Hands

Breasts
21 Where did Changez and Erica meet?

Princeton

Europe

Greece

Pakistan
22 How did Changez come to be on the summer trip?

He was in the same place at the same time.

He knew a friend.

He organized it.

He was looking for Erica.
23 Changez is surprised by Erica exposing what part of herself to him?

Legs

Breasts

Genitals

Upper thighs
24 What happens the night Erica celebrates getting an agent?

She is sent to the institution.

Changez visits her at her apartment.

She ends up in bed with Changez.

She asks Changez out.
25 Erica likes to hear about what from Changez?

Poetry

Chile

Underwood Samson

Pakistan

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