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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. Which of the following does Darius receive as a Nowruz present from his uncles?
2. Which of the following spices does Fariba use in her chelo kabob?
3. How many daughters does Jamsheed have?
4. Which of the following does Darius receive as a Nowruz present from Sohrab?
5. What is Darius’s middle name?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reasons does Darius note for identifying Sohrab as a good listener at the Bahrami Nowruz celebration?
2. What is Persian Casual, in Darius’s estimation?
3. What is the irony of Darius complaining to Sohrab about Stephen?
4. What reasons does Shirin give for not having taught Darius Farsi?
5. In the group soccer game Darius and Sohrab play against Ali-Reza and Hossein, the earlier epithet for Dairus, “Ayatollah,” is repeated but reimagined or reappropriated (249). What was its original meaning, as applied to Darius, and what is its reappropriated meaning?
6. Why, per Darius, is sumac served as an accompaniment to chelo kabob?
7. What mess does Darius note is left by the Bahrami Nowruz celebration?
8. In the baad gir in Yazd, Darius is taken by what he sees. What is it that he sees?
9. Why, as Darius asserts to Sohrab at the Bahrami Nowruz celebration, is Stephen unhappy with him?
10. What is sky burial in the novel?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Consider the following:
“Stephen Kellner always gave everyone the benefit of the doubt.
“Everyone except me” (184).
Does the novel as a whole support or reject the assertion? What in the novel sustains that support or rejection? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
Throughout the novel, Darius notes some embarrassment whenever he is asked whether he has a girlfriend. Why might he be thusly embarrassed? What in the novel supports that answer? How does it support the answer?
Essay Topic 3
Consider the following passage:
“[Laleh] was a replacement. An upgrade. I knew that without anyone saying it out loud.
“And I knew Stephen Kellner was relieved to have another chance, a new child who wouldn’t be such a disappointment. It was written across his face every time he smiled at her. Every time he sighed at me.
“I didn’t blame Laleh for that.
“I really didn’t.
“But sometimes I wondered if I was the one who was an accident.
“That’s normal.
“Right?” (133).
Answer Darius’s question for the novel. Is it normal? What in the novel says it is or is not? How does it say so?
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