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

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

3. What was Mohammed Reza Pahlavi's title?
(a) Shah.
(b) Czar.
(c) Governor.
(d) King.

4. From a young age, Kimiâ had been sure that she would grow up to be a what?
(a) A woman.
(b) A heterosexual.
(c) A man.
(d) A gay person.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Emma is said to be the sole person in the Sadr family of what nationality?

3. Kimiâ states in Side A: Chapter 1 that Darius used to say that what part of the body is a "better listener than the ears" (21)?

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

5. Kimiâ compares the process of exile to what biological process?

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