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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sara told her children that she had always wanted to marry a man with which two features?
(a) Blue eyes and glasses.
(b) Green eyes and strong hands.
(c) Baldness and blue eyes.
(d) A well-coiffed head of hair and brown eyes.

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

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

4. 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?
(a) Melancholy.
(b) Frustrated.
(c) Scared.
(d) Elated.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what years were the two albums Kimiâ discusses in Chapter 7 released?

2. From a young age, Kimiâ had been sure that she would grow up to be a what?

3. Which character does Emma predict will be a boy?

4. Kimiâ states in the prologue, "All I know is that these pages won't be" (13) what?

5. What month of her pregnancy with Mina had Sara been entering when her water broke?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Kimiâ portray "the Iranian woman's lot" in Side A: Chapter 4?

2. For what reason does Kimiâ's sister Leïli call her early in the morning at the start of Chapter 2?

3. What does the escalator symbolize within the prologue of Disoriental?

4. In what way does the significant event on October 25, 1967 solve a dilemma for Darius?

5. Name one theme depicted within the epigraph of the novel Disoriental.

6. What message does Djavadi send about the trauma associated with being exiled from one's own homeland?

7. What sort of evidence does Kimiâ provide in order to back up her claim that the phrase "effort to integrate" lacks both "sincerity and openness" (111)?

8. Provide an example from the text when Djavadi's use of the confessional tone interacts with the idea of storytelling.

9. What connection does Darius draw between organized religion and fear?

10. What message about the nature of superstition is sent within Side A: Chapter 6?

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