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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is ash-e reshteh, per the novel?
2. The work “nakon” carries which of the following meanings, per the novel?
3. What color are the “truck nuts” left with Darius’s bicycle?
4. The word “qottab” carries which of the following meanings, per the novel?
5. The word “desultorily” carries which of the following meanings?
Short Essay Questions
1. Near the end of “Bette Davis Eyes,” what does Darius report wanting and failing to tell Ardeshir?
2. What reasons does Darius give for disliking Subway?
3. What reasons does Darius give for avoiding detailed discussion of his school as he rides from Tehran to Yazd with Fairba?
4. In what condition do the Bahramis and Kellners find Persepolis?
5. Darius considers shouting at the second customs officer he encounters in Iran. What does he consider shouting, and why does he refrain from doing so?
6. What reasons does Darius give for Stephen laughing after his backpack is broken?
7. What occasioned Stephen stopping the fire-jumping celebration, and what caused him to resume it?
8. What is meant by the phrase “Soulless Minions of Orthodoxy,” and who are prominent early examples of the phrase?
9. What reasons does Darius give for disliking pu-erh tea?
10. What does Darius note are his main areas of Farsi knowledge?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Darius remarks (191) that “He [Stephen] told me people wouldn’t pick on me so much if I was more normal. What does that even mean?” What is “normal” in this context? How do you know? Is Stephen’s comment accurate? Why or why not, per the novel and experience?
Essay Topic 2
Darius notes the following:
“No one had ever made people speak in English around me before.
“Not even Mom” (235).
What is the significance of Sohrab insisting on English with Darius? Why is it significant?
Essay Topic 3
Darius repeatedly notes Stephen’s prototypically or stereotypically Germanic persona. What might be the purpose of calling attention to it? What in the novel suggests as much? How does it make the suggestion?
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