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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. At what time does Darius wake to begin his trip to Iran?
2. The phrase “chetori toh” carries which of the following meanings in the novel?
3. The phrase “pedar sag” carries which of the following meanings, per the novel?
4. Which of the following does Darius NOT borrow from Sohrab?
5. The word “babou” carries which of the following meanings in the novel?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Ardeshir doing when Darius first sees him in Iran?
2. What games are included in Darius’s “net sports” unit?
3. What reasons does Darius give for considering Jean-Luc Picard the best Star Trek captain?
4. What activity does Darius report undertaking with Laleh that she pretends not to like?
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. In what condition do the Bahramis and Kellners find Persepolis?
7. What reasons does Darius posit for Ardeshir’s dislike of Stephen?
8. What reasons does Darius give for not liking figs?
9. What does Darius identify as the two most humiliating moments in his life?
10. What occasioned Stephen stopping the fire-jumping celebration, and what caused him to resume it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Consider the following:
“I was one tiny pulsar in a swirling, luminous galaxy of Iranians, held together by the gravity of thousands of years of culture and heritage.
“There was nothing like it back home.
“Maybe the Super Bowl.” (220)
Explicate the comparison between the two: millennia-long Persian culture and major U.S. athletic events. What is suggested, and how, based on the novel and experience?
Essay Topic 2
As Darius prepares to leave Iran, he notes that he intends to call Fariba weekly but knows he will fail, noting that “Because each time I talked to her, I’d have to say good-bye.
“Now that we were part of each other’s lives—our real lives, not our photonic ones—I didn’t know if I could survive that” (299).
Given that, is Darius better off for having had the experience of meeting his Persian family? How does the novel support or deny the idea?
Essay Topic 3
Darius muses on the word “Aryan” and its multiple—and multiply uncomfortable—meanings (13-14). What other words have such shades of meaning in the novel? What in the text indicates those meanings, and how does it do so?
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