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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. What is the real meaning of the term "vagin" (106) in Persian?
(a) A type of alcohol.
(b) Sex.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Vagina.

2. What activity had Darius been doing in his office when he got the news that Sara's water had broken?
(a) Making phone calls.
(b) Writing a letter to the Shah.
(c) Chain-smoking.
(d) Exercising.

3. In Side A: Chapter 1, what sets Kimiâ apart from the other people around her?
(a) She is alone and everyone else has a partner.
(b) She has a partner and everyone else is alone.
(c) She is silent.
(d) She is dressed up.

4. What items does Emma use to predict the future, a time-honored tradition that has been passed down through generations?
(a) Tea leaves.
(b) Crystals.
(c) Coffee grounds.
(d) Grains of sand.

5. Darius had viewed parenthood in the way most people view what object, according to Kimiâ?
(a) A ride at an amusement park.
(b) A long wait in line.
(c) A five-course meal.
(d) An African safari.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How many years after Mina's first rescue of her father does she save his life again?

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

5. The novel's prologue focuses on whose aversion to the use of escalators?

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