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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. To what prison was Sohrab’s father transferred?

2. What team is represented on the jersey Sohrab gives Darius?

3. How many opponents do Ali-Reza and Hossein have when Darius and Sohrab join them a second time?

4. In what city does Soheil live?

5. Which of the following does Darius remember to pack before playing soccer with Sohrab again?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Persian Casual, in Darius’s estimation?

3. What is the irony of Darius complaining to Sohrab about Stephen?

4. What reason does Stephen give for having stopped telling Darius stories?

5. What is sekanjabin in the novel?

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

7. What are the three things Darius notes liking in Sohrab while walking with him and his family?

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

9. Why does Darius realize Sohrab had been surprised he had not agreed to visit him on the day after Nowruz?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Consider Darius’s thought that “For Fariba Bahrami, love was an opportunity, not a burden” (75). How can love serve as either opportunity or burden? What in the novel and in experience supports the interpretation? How does it do so?

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