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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Side A: Chapters 5-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character does Emma predict will be a boy?
(a) Leïli.
(b) Kimiâ.
(c) Sara.
(d) Mina.

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

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

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?
(a) Ink.
(b) Grease.
(c) Blood.
(d) Ketchup.

5. Who had been trying to decide whether to write an article or to resign when the news arrived that Sara had gone into labor with Mina?
(a) Uncle Number Two.
(b) Uncle Number Six.
(c) Darius.
(d) Leïli.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kimiâ states in Chapter 7 that "an exile" (140) is condemned to commit what act?

2. What was Mohammed Reza Pahlavi's title?

3. What term is NOT used to explain a certain character's aversion to escalators?

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

5. To what band does Kimiâ allude within her discussion of integration in Chapter 6?

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