The Last White Man MCQs

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Author: Nasir Iqbal | Assistant Professor of English Literature


Updated on: November 11, 2025
Estimated Reading Time: 17 min

The Last White Man MCQs

1. What undeniable change does Anders observe upon waking?

A. Dark skin colour
B. Strange new sound
C. Sudden deep hunger
D. New phone

A. Dark skin colour.
Anders woke up one morning to find he had turned a deep and undeniable brown colour.

2. What unsettling observation does Anders first make while reaching for his phone?

A. His phone was broken
B. Light was strange
C. He was still dreaming
D. Room felt cold

B. Light was strange.
He initially felt the early morning light was doing something strange to the colour of his forearm.

3. What emotion primarily fills Anders when he sees his changed reflection in the bathroom mirror?

A. Profound sadness
B. Mild confusion
C. Murderous rage
D. Deep depression

C. Murderous rage.
Anders was filled with anger, or rather, an unexpected, murderous rage, when seeing the colored man confronting him.

4. What item did Anders damage by slamming his fist into the mirror?

A. Medicine cabinet fitting
B. Sink countertop
C. Bathroom window
D. Toilet lid

A. Medicine cabinet fitting.
He slammed his fist into the reflection, cracking the mirror slightly and skewing the entire cabinet fitting.
5. What algorithm failed to identify Anders after his change?

A. Bank security
B. Digital album
C. Phone contacts
D. Job application

B. Digital album.
When Anders tested his identity with a picture, the algorithm in his digital album could not identify him.

6. Why does Anders feel trapped indoors after his color change?

A. He was too sick
B. He feared going outside
C. He was avoiding cleaning
D. His friends left

B. He feared going outside.
Anders was trapped indoors because he did not dare to step outside and face the outside world.

7. What bodily feature did Anders inspect that seemed bizarre and unacceptable?

A. His feet
B. His hands
C. His penis
D. His hair

C. His penis.
Anders found his penis unremarkable in size and heft, yet bizarre because it was no longer his.

8. How many days did Anders message in sick initially before extending his absence?

A. Seven days
B. Two days
C. Four days
D. One day

B. Two days.
Anders messaged in sick the first day, and then messaged on the second day for the rest of the week.

9. What kind of food did Anders primarily need to buy at the grocery store?

A. Eggs and butter
B. Milk and tuna
C. Wine and beer
D. Bread and flour

B. Milk and tuna.
Anders was out of milk, chicken breast, and canned tuna, requiring him to go out and face the world.
10. What object did Anders put on for minimal concealment before leaving his home?

A. A heavy scarf
B. Large glasses
C. A cap
D. A thick coat

C. A cap.
Anders put on a cap and wedged it low, attempting to hide his appearance before visiting the grocery store.

11. Who did Anders recognise but did not recognise him at the grocery store?

A. The clerk
B. His boss
C. An old friend
D. The manager

A. The clerk.
Anders recognised the clerk who scanned his purchases, but the clerk did not acknowledge him or his name.

12. What action by a woman at a traffic light intensified Anders’s distress?

A. She tried to fight him
B. She smiled broadly
C. She ignored him
D. She cursed him

D. She cursed him.
A woman swerved to overtake Anders at a traffic light, rolled down her window, and cursed him furiously.

13. What specific item did Anders smoke after returning from the store and feeling anxious?

A. A cigar
B. A pipe
C. Pot
D. A cigarette

C. Pot.
Anders took a hit of pot to handle his strumming anxiety, which he knew he needed to smoke through.

14. What health issue caused the death of Anders’s mother?

A. Old age
B. A traffic accident
C. Cancer
D. A heart attack

C. Cancer.
Anders’s mother died from cancer, which ate her up inside, potentially linked to contaminated water.
15. What was Anders’s best feature in high school, inherited from his mother?

A. His intelligence
B. His smile
C. His serious nature
D. His athletic ability

B. His smile.
People in high school always said his best feature was his easy and inviting smile, inherited from his mother.

16. What was Oona doing just before Anders called her?

A. Teaching yoga
B. Meditating
C. Eating dinner
D. Sleeping soundly

B. Meditating.
Oona had just finished meditating, which had induced a fragile state of serenity, when Anders called.

17. Why did Oona move back to her hometown?

A. Return to school
B. Start a new job
C. Help her mother
D. Avoid the city

C. Help her mother.
Oona moved back to town primarily to help her mother through the demise of Oona’s twin brother.

18. How does Oona view her recently renewed attraction to Anders?

A. Deeply romantic
B. Highly essential
C. Somewhat transactional
D. Fully committed

C. Somewhat transactional.
Oona thought their renewed attraction was somewhat transactional, serving as a way of passing the time.

19. How did Oona travel from her work to Anders’s place?

A. By car
B. By bicycle
C. By taxi
D. By bus

B. By bicycle.
Oona took a bicycle ride from her work, which progressed from the more prosperous to the poorer part of town.
20. What did Oona note as an unusual quantity of in Anders’s small home?

A. Appliances
B. Books
C. Sports equipment
D. Musical instruments

B. Books.
Anders did not have many things, except for an unusual quantity of books stacked on makeshift shelves.

21. What confirmed Anders’s identity to Oona upon seeing his changed appearance?

A. His voice
B. His height
C. His clothing
D. His familiar eyes

A. His voice.
Although unnerved by his darker appearance, Oona knew for certain it was him when she heard his voice.

22. What job does Anders hold?

A. College professor
B. Worked at a gym
C. Office manager
D. Taught yoga

B. Worked at a gym.
Anders worked at a gym, while Oona taught yoga; they both maintained youthful and fit bodies.

23. What lingering feeling complicated Anders and Oona’s sleep after their first encounter post-change?

A. Curious betrayal
B. Deep connection
C. Total relief
D. Pure ecstasy

A. Curious betrayal.
A curious sense of betrayal lingered after their coupling, making sleep difficult for both Anders and Oona.

24. What did Oona’s mother warn Oona that she should acquire?

A. Extra food
B. Get a gun
C. Better car
D. New friends

B. Get a gun.
As Oona was leaving, her mother complimented her beauty and advised, “You should get a gun”.
25. What concealed Anders’s face from the sides when he ventured outside?

A. A wide scarf
B. Large sunglasses
C. A hoodie
D. A baseball cap

C. A hoodie.
Anders wore a hoodie to conceal his face from the sides, driven by a vague, menacing feeling.

26. Who recognised Anders (post-change) that he did not know?

A. Old classmates
B. Grocery shoppers
C. Dark people
D. Children playing

C. Dark people.
Anders was unsettled by being recognised by dark people he did not know, such as those at a bus stop.

27. How did Anders finally tell his father about his transformation?

A. Via video message
B. Over the phone
C. In person
D. In a letter

B. Over the phone.
Anders told his father over the phone, feeling it was a cowardly but necessary way to reveal his change.

28. What serious incident led Anders’s father to administer a solid beating once?

A. Stealing money
B. Negligent with a rifle
C. Fighting police
D. Skipping school

B. Negligent with a rifle.
Anders received a proper beating once for being negligent with a loaded rifle, discharging it by mistake.

29. How does Anders’s father appear physically when Anders goes to see him?

A. Stout and healthy
B. Gaunt and ill
C. Happy and relaxed
D. Muscular and fit

B. Gaunt and ill.
Anders’s father was described as gaunt and ill to his core, with burning, pale eyes.
30. What emotion did Anders’s father display immediately upon seeing his changed son?

A. He yelled
B. He wept
C. He panicked
D. He laughed

B. He wept.
Upon watching Anders approach, his father stared, then wept silently, shuddering like an endless cough.

31. What phenomenon began to be reported across the country by reliable voices?

A. Food shortages
B. People changing colour
C. Massive job losses
D. New political party

B. People changing color.
Reports of people changing colour, initially dismissed, were later picked up by reliable voices and confirmed.

32. What reason did Anders’s boss give for shutting down the gym temporarily?

A. Fear of clients
B. Fire damage
C. No remaining clients
D. Ran out of supplies

B. Fire damage.
The gym had been damaged by fire, leading Anders’s boss to shut down for a while without letting Anders go.

33. What does Anders’s boss say he would have done if he had changed colour?

A. Moved away
B. Asked for help
C. Quit his job
D. Killed himself

D. Killed himself.
Anders’s boss looked him over at the gym entrance and flatly stated he would have killed himself.

34. Why did gym clients affectionately call Anders “doc”?

A. Studied medicine
B. Expert in bodies
C. His actual name
D. His last name

B. Expert in bodies.
Old-timers called Anders “doc” because he had become an expert in putting their bodies back together.
35. What activity did Anders attempt to maintain at the gym, which felt artificial?

A. Normal banter
B. Heavy lifting
C. New exercises
D. Strict silence

A. Normal banter.
Anders tried to engage in his normal banter to act like himself, but found this attempt was artificial.

36. What was Oona’s mother convinced was happening against “their kind”?

A. An epidemic
B. A misunderstanding
C. A plot
D. A drought

C. A plot.
Oona’s mother was convinced she understood the plot that had been building for years against their kind.

37. What was happening to the shelves of stores as the mood in town changed?

A. Fully stocked
B. Locked up tight
C. Being reorganised
D. More bare

D. More bare.
As the mood in town changed and fears grew, the shelves of the stores became noticeably emptier.

38. What object did Anders keep visible on his coffee table while stuck inside his home?

A. The rifle
B. His mobile phone
C. An open book
D. A house plant

A. The rifle.
Anders kept the rifle, which his father had given him, visible on the coffee table in front of his sofa.

39. Who at the gym did Anders decide he needed to actually talk to, not just be nice to?

A. His boss
B. The cleaning guy
C. A new client
D. The old-timers

B. The cleaning guy.
Anders realised he needed to stop treating the dark-skinned cleaning guy like a pet and actually talk to him.
40. Who began appearing on the streets, visibly armed, causing Oona concern?

A. Police officers
B. Unarmed protesters
C. Pale-skinned militants
D. Dark-skinned youths

C. Pale-skinned militants.
Pale-skinned militants, some dressed almost like soldiers, appeared on the streets, visibly carrying weapons.

41. What emotion did Anders try to conceal from his father using sunglasses?

A. His skin colour
B. His physical pain
C. Knowledge of death
D. His new haircut

C. Knowledge of death.
Anders was glad for his sunglasses, so his father would not see the knowledge of his impending death.

42. What essential items did Anders’s father give him along with cash?

A. Extra groceries
B. A rifle and shells
C. A new phone
D. A winter coat

B. A rifle and shells.
Anders’s father insisted his son take a rifle and a box of shells, ignoring Anders’s reluctance.

43. What visual comparison did Oona make when experimenting with her tan pictures online?

A. A future here
B. A sad figure
C. A lost connection
D. A wealthy woman

A. A future her.
Oona darkened her tan pictures, seeing a future born from a past her, free from the present.

44. How did Oona disguise herself before going downstairs after changing?

A. Wore a wig
B. Wore a hat
C. Applied heavy makeup
D. Wore a mask

C. Applied heavy makeup.
Oona applied makeup with care, emerging as a dark and dashing woman to wear the face she had made.
45. Why did Anders flee his cabin and take shelter at his father’s house?

A. Militants came for him
B. His lease ended
C. He ran out of food
D. Oona told him to hide

A. Militants came for him.
Militants arrived at Anders’s home, confronting him and forcing him to flee to his father’s place.

46. How did Anders’s father conceal Anders’s car?

A. In the garage
B. Behind the house
C. Under a tarp
D. At a friend’s place

B. Behind the house.
Anders’s father parked his son’s car behind the house, checking it was not visible from the street.

47. What was Anders doing when Oona’s mother saw him and then vomited?

A. Reading books
B. Cooking dinner
C. Having sex with Oona
D. Cleaning the room

C. Having sex with Oona.
Anders and Oona were having sex in her bed when her mother opened the door, leading to her vomiting.

48. What did Oona realise she needed to mourn after she changed colour herself?

A. Her attachment to the old Oona
B. Her lost yoga clients
C. Her mother’s disapproval
D. Her previous career

A. Her attachment to the old Oona.
Oona felt melancholy, realising she might be mourning her attachment to the face and person she had been.

49. What was Anders’s father doing when he took his last, mighty breath?

A. Anders was absent
B. Anders was with him
C. Oona was holding him
D. He was alone

B. Anders was with him.
Anders stayed with his father, who opened his eyes, and then stopped breathing after a mighty, exhausting breath.
50. Who was the only pale person present at Anders’s father’s funeral service?

A. Anders’s boss
B. Oona’s mother
C. Anders’s father
D. A police officer

C. Anders’s father.
Anders’s pale father was the only pale person left in the entire town attending the service.

Brief Overview

The Last White Man is a novel by Mohsin Hamid, published in 2022. The story is a racial allegory that questions the existence and definition of whiteness and the social privileges associated with it.

The novel begins when Anders, a white man, wakes up one morning to find his skin has turned a deep brown. This sudden change fills him with intense fear and anger, which he views as a terrible theft of his identity. He feels tense and isolated, choosing to hide inside his home.

Anders contacts Oona, a woman he is dating, who is startled when she visits him. They soon realize that white people across the entire country are also experiencing this exact, sudden change.

Armed, pale-skinned militants appear in town, causing widespread riots and violence. Anders, now dark, feels threatened and is forced to flee his home to hide with his sick father.

Oona’s mother struggles greatly with fear while watching the social chaos. Soon after, Oona also changes color, but she feels lighter, like she is escaping a prison. Anders’s father dies and is buried, widely recognized as the last white person in town.

The community eventually begins to settle down as almost everyone has changed. Anders and Oona start nesting together in his childhood home. They later have a daughter who grows up in this new, post-racial world.

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