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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. With whom does Darius partner for his first game of Rook?
(a) Parviz.
(b) Sohrab.
(c) Stephen.
(d) Navid.

2. The comment that “His skin was a volcano” (250) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Simile.
(b) Kenning.
(c) Conceit.
(d) Metaphor.

3. Which of the following bands does Fariba call her favorite?
(a) Air Supply.
(b) Ambroisa.
(c) ABBA.
(d) Ace of Bass.

4. How tall is the baad gir in Yazd?
(a) 200 feet.
(b) 100 feet.
(c) 400 feet.
(d) 300 feet.

5. Which of the following ends up as one of Sohrab and Darius’s teammates?
(a) Suleiman.
(b) Efraim.
(c) Behruz.
(d) Hossein

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is outside of the baad gir in Yazd?

2. What color is the car in front of the Rezaei house when Darius arrives after the death of Sohrab’s father?

3. In which of the following colors are the Bahramis’ boxes of jasmine painted?

4. How often did Sohrab get to see his father early in his incarceration?

5. What kind of camera does Jamsheed use?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Darius note that he likes best of all in Sohrab?

2. What does Darius note wanting to learn from Simin, but which he is unable to ask after?

3. What is sekanjabin in the novel?

4. Why, per Darius, is kabob koobideh “the most suspicious-looking” of Persian foods (259-60)?

5. What does Darius confess to Sohrab that leads him to affirm that Laleh cannot take his place?

6. Why does Darius end up feeling sorry for Ali-Reza?

7. Why, as Darius asserts to Sohrab at the Bahrami Nowruz celebration, does he think Stephen does not love him?

8. What mess does Darius note is left by the Bahrami Nowruz celebration?

9. What litter does Darius note as he flees from the Rezaei home?

10. Why, per Darius, is sumac served as an accompaniment to chelo kabob?

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