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

2. Kimiâ states that she does not suffer from social anxiety when what condition is present?
(a) When she is speaking French.
(b) When she is speaking English.
(c) When she is speaking Arabic.
(d) When she is speaking Persian.

3. How long after the wedding of Darius and Sara had Leïli been born?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 11 months.
(c) 5 months.
(d) 9 months.

4. In what month was Mina born?
(a) October.
(b) May.
(c) February.
(d) August.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Darius lie about the meaning of the term "vagin" (106)?

2. Which family member of Kimiâ's often told her and her sisters the story about Montazemolmolk?

3. Which one of Kimiâ's uncles calls frequent meetings with his brothers to talk about their daughters' reputations?

4. How old was Kimiâ when she pretended to be interested in economics to gain the attention of her father Darius?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. On what two occasions had Mina saved Darius's life, according to Kimiâ?

2. In what way does the music motif arise within Kimiâ's discussion of integration?

3. In what way does Kimiâ acknowledge within the prologue her own fallibility as a narrator?

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

5. How is the theme of loss intertwined with the theme of transformation within Chapter 3?

6. Discuss an incident during Kimiâ's childhood that teaches her to distrust male authority figures.

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

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

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

10. Provide an example of a social situation in which Kimiâ feels anxiety.

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