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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Side B: Chapters 3-5 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The novel's prologue focuses on whose aversion to the use of escalators?
(a) Sara.
(b) Darius.
(c) Mina.
(d) Marteen.

2. Kimiâ describes in Side A: Chapter 8 Darius's composition of a long letter to whom?
(a) The editor-in-chief of his newspaper.
(b) The Shah.
(c) The magistrate.
(d) The king.

3. In what year did Ruhollah Khomeini return to rule Iran after the Shah was deposed?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1981.

4. Kimiâ describes punk music as a genre that "denounces the hypocrisy of" (267) what?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Class.
(c) Power.
(d) War.

5. How old was Darius when he married Sara?
(a) 25.
(b) 45.
(c) 45.
(d) 38.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had been especially surprised about Kimiâ's gender upon receiving the news of her arrival?

2. Who rebuked Kimiâ for upsetting their mother Sara with the change of her physical appearance?

3. What part of Mina's body is said to be "a constant reminder that she'd paid her debt to" (262) Iran?

4. At the very end of the epilogue, Kimiâ assures Sara that which character will "be home soon" (335)?

5. With which country's philosophy regarding immigration does Kimiâ find fault in Side A: Chapter 6?

(see the answer key)

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