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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Kimiâ returned home after a long period of absence, Sara hugged her and told her that which character had died?
(a) Darius.
(b) Khomeini.
(c) Mina.
(d) Emma.

2. Which character transformed from an extrovert to a "withdrawn, silent girl" (261) after her family's move to Paris?
(a) Mina.
(b) Emma.
(c) Kimiâ.
(d) Leïli.

3. Kimiâ reports contracting a high fever how long after an object had been thrown through the Sadrs' apartment window?
(a) A few weeks.
(b) Nearly a year.
(c) A few months.
(d) A few days.

4. In what location did Kimiâ hide when she saw "dozens of armed soldiers" (181) flow into the courtyard outside her family's apartment?
(a) Up in a tree.
(b) In a shed.
(c) A neighbor's apartment.
(d) On the roof.

5. Which group is said to have believed that Darius was "a bourgeois agent of the CIA" (237)?
(a) The conservatives.
(b) The communists.
(c) The mullahs.
(d) The Shah's supporters.

6. Instead of going home from high school at lunchtime, Kimiâ began to go to what location?
(a) The coffee shop.
(b) The courtyard.
(c) The library.
(d) The swimming pool.

7. What emotion had Darius felt about Kimiâ's childhood behavior not aligned with prescribed gender norms in Iran?
(a) Denial.
(b) Regret.
(c) Acceptance.
(d) Resentment.

8. Sara had repeatedly asked her daughters to help her translate her book into what language?
(a) French.
(b) English.
(c) Arabic.
(d) Persian.

9. What color are Kimiâ's eyes?
(a) Hazel.
(b) Brown.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

10. Darius resigned from the newspaper called Keyhan when a SAVAK agent was appointed to what position?
(a) Editor-in-chief.
(b) Lead correspondent.
(c) Lead writer.
(d) Minister of propaganda.

11. Kimiâ describes punk music as a genre that "denounces the hypocrisy of" (267) what?
(a) War.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Class.
(d) Power.

12. What is NOT an adjective Kimiâ uses to describe Dr. Gautier?
(a) Old.
(b) Pale.
(c) Tall.
(d) Sun-deprived.

13. Side B: Chapter 1 begins by including a journal entry written by which character?
(a) Darius.
(b) Kamran.
(c) Mina.
(d) Sara.

14. What color are Darius's eyes?
(a) Hazel.
(b) Blue.
(c) Brown.
(d) Green.

15. Kimiâ describes in Side A: Chapter 8 Darius's composition of a long letter to whom?
(a) The king.
(b) The Shah.
(c) The magistrate.
(d) The editor-in-chief of his newspaper.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kimiâ is adamant when she tells the reader that which character felt responsible for all that had transpired in the Sadr family?

2. What malady did Kimiâ pretend to have on the night Ramin was stopped by the curfew patrol several times?

3. Kimiâ tells the reader of her story, "I have no proof to show you. None. Not even a" (160) what?

4. At whom is a soldier pointing a pistol when Mina vomits on the soldier's pant leg?

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

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