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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Side A: Chapters 8-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the real meaning of the term "vagin" (106) in Persian?
(a) A type of alcohol.
(b) Vagina.
(c) Sex.
(d) Tobacco.

2. Kimiâ compares the process of exile to what biological process?
(a) Being born.
(b) Going through puberty.
(c) Dying.
(d) Giving birth.

3. What term is NOT used to explain a certain character's aversion to escalators?
(a) Theft.
(b) Laziness.
(c) Luxury.
(d) Abuse.

4. With what phrase does Kimiâ find fault in regard to members of the diaspora?
(a) Efforts to simulate.
(b) Efforts to integrate.
(c) Efforts to assimilate.
(d) Efforts to ingratiate.

5. Who is Emma?
(a) Kimiâ's paternal great-aunt.
(b) Kimiâ's maternal grandmother.
(c) Kimiâ's maternal great-grandmother.
(d) Kimiâ's paternal grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Persian title "Shahanshahe" (90) mean, according to Kimiâ?

2. In what year was Mina born?

3. How many people were inside Darius's family's apartment the day it was raided?

4. Darius is said to have had a "spot" of what substance "on the middle finger of his right hand" (82) at the time he met Sara?

5. What items are described in the prologue as serving "up their own reality" (11)?

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