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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 activity had Darius always undertaken while talking to Kimiâ about economics?
(a) He ate his breakfast.
(b) He watered the plants.
(c) He shaved.
(d) He fed the dogs.

2. What action did Kimiâ take that resulted in Sara's decision to stop speaking to her for weeks?
(a) She dyes her hair blue.
(b) She gets a lip piercing.
(c) She cuts her hair short.
(d) She bleaches her hair blonde.

3. Which group is said to have hated Darius because they believed he had turned Iran over to the mullahs?
(a) The socialists.
(b) The conservatives.
(c) The Shah's supporters.
(d) The communists.

4. What activity does Kimiâ NOT mention as one of her favorite childhood activities?
(a) Running.
(b) Fishing.
(c) Climbing trees.
(d) Skipping rope.

5. In what years were the two albums Kimiâ discusses in Chapter 7 released?
(a) 1992 and 1994.
(b) 1977 and 1979.
(c) 1989 and 1990.
(d) 1981 and 1984.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What group is said to have viewed Darius as "a piece of intellectual scum" (237)?

3. Kimiâ states of the present time that all the reader needs "to know is that it's" (13) the 19th of what month?

4. With which country's philosophy regarding immigration does Kimiâ find fault in Side A: Chapter 6?

5. Darius returned to his family how many days after Khomeini's arrival in Iran?

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