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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Side A: Chapters 5-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long after the wedding of Darius and Sara had Leïli been born?
(a) 11 months.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 9 months.
(d) 5 months.

2. What kind of engagement keeps Pierre from being able to accompany Kimiâ to a particular wing of the hospital?
(a) Romantic.
(b) Political.
(c) Business-related.
(d) Educational.

3. What is the real meaning of the term "vagin" (106) in Persian?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Sex.
(c) Vagina.
(d) A type of alcohol.

4. In what years were the two albums Kimiâ discusses in Chapter 7 released?
(a) 1977 and 1979.
(b) 1989 and 1990.
(c) 1981 and 1984.
(d) 1992 and 1994.

5. Kimiâ compares the process of exile to what biological process?
(a) Going through puberty.
(b) Dying.
(c) Giving birth.
(d) Being born.

Short Answer Questions

1. Darius is said to have had a "spot" of what substance "on the middle finger of his right hand" (82) at the time he met Sara?

2. In what wing of Cochin Hospital does Side A: Chapter 1 begin?

3. Kimiâ states of the present time that all the reader needs "to know is that it's" (13) the 19th of what month?

4. With what phrase does Kimiâ find fault in regard to members of the diaspora?

5. What malady did Kimiâ contract in her childhood that caused a doctor to tell her she had to remain motionless?

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