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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The novel's prologue focuses on whose aversion to the use of escalators?
(a) Mina.
(b) Marteen.
(c) Darius.
(d) Sara.

2. How did Darius feel when he received the news that Sara had gone into labor and that he needed to get to the hospital immediately?
(a) Elated.
(b) Frustrated.
(c) Melancholy.
(d) Scared.

3. From a young age, Kimiâ had been sure that she would grow up to be a what?
(a) A man.
(b) A gay person.
(c) A heterosexual.
(d) A woman.

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

5. What term is NOT used to explain a certain character's aversion to escalators?
(a) Abuse.
(b) Luxury.
(c) Theft.
(d) Laziness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kimiâ uses all capital letters every time she refers to what two-word mysterious term used by her family members?

2. What "compulsion" does Kimiâ report having "inherited from Sara" (83)?

3. What false meaning does Darius provide for the term "vagin" (106) when he lies about it?

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

5. Kimiâ recalls Darius telling her that the "only weapon" (63) available to religious leaders was what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What significant event occurs on October 25, 1967 within the Sadr family?

2. What sort of evidence does Kimiâ provide in order to back up her claim that the phrase "effort to integrate" lacks both "sincerity and openness" (111)?

3. What connection does Darius draw between organized religion and fear?

4. On what two occasions had Mina saved Darius's life, according to Kimiâ?

5. How is the theme of loss intertwined with the theme of transformation within Chapter 3?

6. Name one theme depicted within the epigraph of the novel Disoriental.

7. Discuss an incident during Kimiâ's childhood that teaches her to distrust male authority figures.

8. Provide an example from the text when Djavadi's use of the confessional tone interacts with the idea of storytelling.

9. What message does Djavadi send about the trauma associated with being exiled from one's own homeland?

10. For what reason does Kimiâ's sister Leïli call her early in the morning at the start of Chapter 2?

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