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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. The work “nakon” carries which of the following meanings, per the novel?
2. The word “bebakhshid” means which of the following, per the novel?
3. The comment that “for a beautiful, poetic language, it sounded as harsh as Klingon when they fought” (79) offers an example of which of the following?
4. In the comment that “for a beautiful, poetic language, it sounded as harsh as Klingon when they fought” (79), which of the following is the antecedent to the pronoun “it”?
5. Which of the following is among the names Laleh gives to the goldfish on the Kellner’s Haft-Seen?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reasons does Darius give for not liking figs?
2. What does Darius note are his main areas of Farsi knowledge?
3. What activities does Darius report undertaking with Laleh that he does not disclose to others?
4. Why, per Darius, does he not shower after gym class at his school?
5. How does Darius relate his mother’s early misunderstanding of taarof with his father’s parents?
6. Why does Darius consider Javaneh brave?
7. What is meant by the phrase “Soulless Minions of Orthodoxy,” and who are prominent early examples of the phrase?
8. What reasons does Darius have to doubt Fariba’s pronouncement of his handsomeness as he rides from Tehran to Yazd with her?
9. What reasons does Darius give for Stephen laughing after his backpack is broken?
10. What reasons does Darius give for disliking Subway?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Consider the following:
“‘Wow,’ I breathed.
“It felt like the kind of place where you were supposed to whisper.
“‘You say that a lot.’
“‘Sorry.’
“‘Don’t be. I like it’” (246).
To what “it” does the last line refer? Why might Sohrab like it? What in the novel indicates that reason, and how does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
At the end of “Chelo Kabob,” Stephen appears to reach an accord with his father- and brothers-in-law during a conversation about grilling (261). Why would the topic serve such a function? What in the novel and in experience indicates as much? How does it do so?
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