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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Side B: Chapters 1 and 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What promise does Kimiâ make to the person who rebukes her for "adding to [Sara's] suffering" (265)?
(a) She promises to apply to college.
(b) She promises to increase her responsibilities for chores.
(c) She promises to keep up her good grades.
(d) She promises to get a job.

2. Which one of Kimiâ's family members told her that if she kept up her behavior, people would think she was a lesbian?
(a) Mina.
(b) Leïli.
(c) Darius.
(d) Sara.

3. Kimiâ says that contrary to everyone's expectations, she ended up accomplishing what goal?
(a) Passing the bar exam.
(b) Getting into graduate school.
(c) Getting into community college.
(d) Earning a high school diploma.

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

5. To whom had Kimiâ told her ideas about "a cashless world" (64) in an attempt to get her father Darius's attention?
(a) Mina.
(b) Sara.
(c) Darius.
(d) Leïli.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the two most valued physical characteristics in the Sadr family does Kimiâ claim to exhibit?

2. What adjective does Kimiâ use to describe her teenage hips?

3. In what year did hundreds of oppositionists begin to gather at Darius's home every Friday morning at eight o'clock?

4. Which character's "two sentences" are seen by Kimiâ to perfectly encapsulate "the Iranian woman's lot" (69)?

5. How old was Kimiâ when she had a period of reading mostly poetry?

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