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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. In what wing of Cochin Hospital does Side A: Chapter 1 begin?
(a) Burn.
(b) Fertility.
(c) Intensive care.
(d) Maternity.

2. Sara told her children that she had always wanted to marry a man with which two features?
(a) Green eyes and strong hands.
(b) A well-coiffed head of hair and brown eyes.
(c) Baldness and blue eyes.
(d) Blue eyes and glasses.

3. Which family member of Kimiâ's often told her and her sisters the story about Montazemolmolk?
(a) Uncle Number Six.
(b) Uncle Number Three.
(c) Uncle Number Two.
(d) Uncle Number Five.

4. What kind of engagement keeps Pierre from being able to accompany Kimiâ to a particular wing of the hospital?
(a) Business-related.
(b) Educational.
(c) Political.
(d) Romantic.

5. Kimiâ states in the prologue, "All I know is that these pages won't be" (13) what?
(a) Clouded.
(b) Linear.
(c) Lucrative.
(d) Uplifting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What "compulsion" does Kimiâ report having "inherited from Sara" (83)?

2. In the final words of the novel's prologue, Kimiâ states that she is taking what action?

3. Kimiâ calls Sara and Darius "the most" what kind of "couple in the family" (84)?

4. In a footnote, Kimiâ writes that Mazandaran is a province in what part of Iran?

5. What malady did Kimiâ contract in her childhood that caused a doctor to tell her she had to remain motionless?

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