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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue and Chapters 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What activity had Darius always undertaken while talking to Kimiâ about economics?
(a) He ate his breakfast.
(b) He watered the plants.
(c) He fed the dogs.
(d) He shaved.

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

4. Kimiâ calls Sara and Darius "the most" what kind of "couple in the family" (84)?
(a) Political.
(b) Practical.
(c) Modern.
(d) Loving.

5. Once Darius believed that Kimiâ was interested in economics, he started to summon her at what time every day?
(a) Midnight.
(b) The morning.
(c) The afternoon.
(d) The evening.

Short Answer Questions

1. From a young age, Kimiâ had been sure that she would grow up to be a what?

2. Which family member of Kimiâ's often told her and her sisters the story about Montazemolmolk?

3. From a young age, Kimiâ had been sure that she was a what?

4. Kimiâ uses all capital letters every time she refers to what two-word mysterious term used by her family members?

5. 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?

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