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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What items are described in the prologue as serving "up their own reality" (11)?
(a) Short order cooks.
(b) Memories.
(c) Stereotypes.
(d) Religious leaders.

2. Once Darius believed that Kimiâ was interested in economics, he started to summon her at what time every day?
(a) The afternoon.
(b) Midnight.
(c) The evening.
(d) The morning.

3. What month of her pregnancy with Mina had Sara been entering when her water broke?
(a) The 8th.
(b) The 6th.
(c) The 7th.
(d) The 9th.

4. With what phrase does Kimiâ find fault in regard to members of the diaspora?
(a) Efforts to assimilate.
(b) Efforts to integrate.
(c) Efforts to simulate.
(d) Efforts to ingratiate.

5. Whose reputation and life is Darius attempting to save by lying about the meaning of the term "vagin" (106)?
(a) Leïli.
(b) Shirin.
(c) Emma.
(d) Sara.

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

7. Kimiâ states of the present time that all the reader needs "to know is that it's" (13) the 19th of what month?
(a) January.
(b) February.
(c) June.
(d) August.

8. Which character's "two sentences" are seen by Kimiâ to perfectly encapsulate "the Iranian woman's lot" (69)?
(a) Emma.
(b) Mirza-Ali.
(c) Mina.
(d) Sara.

9. How old was Kimiâ when she pretended to be interested in economics to gain the attention of her father Darius?
(a) 15.
(b) 8.
(c) 12.
(d) 6.

10. What is the first name of Kimiâ's father?
(a) Vahe.
(b) Marteen.
(c) Saddeq.
(d) Darius.

11. Kimiâ states in the prologue, "All I know is that these pages won't be" (13) what?
(a) Lucrative.
(b) Linear.
(c) Uplifting.
(d) Clouded.

12. What adjective does Kimiâ use to describe the nature of memory?
(a) Strange.
(b) Imprecise.
(c) Distant.
(d) Hazy.

13. What did the doctor tell Kimiâ would happen if she moved around before she has fully recuperated from her illness?
(a) She would lose her arm.
(b) She would become barren.
(c) She would always be poor.
(d) She would never be able to feel love.

14. Kimiâ states in Chapter 7 that "an exile" (140) is condemned to commit what act?
(a) To leave.
(b) To wander.
(c) To sleep.
(d) To exist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Kimiâ calls Sara and Darius "the most" what kind of "couple in the family" (84)?

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

4. In what way is Montazemolmolk related to Kimiâ and her sisters?

5. How did Darius feel when he received the news that Sara had gone into labor and that he needed to get to the hospital immediately?

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