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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 paternal great-aunt.
(b) Kimiâ's maternal grandmother.
(c) Kimiâ's paternal grandmother.
(d) Kimiâ's maternal great-grandmother.

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

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

4. Kimiâ recalls Darius telling her that the "only weapon" (63) available to religious leaders was what?
(a) Deception.
(b) Money.
(c) Fear.
(d) Shame.

5. From a young age, Kimiâ had been sure that she was a what?
(a) A future doctor.
(b) A sea creature.
(c) A boy.
(d) A girl.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Side A: Chapter 1, what sets Kimiâ apart from the other people around her?

3. At the beginning of the marriage between Darius and Sara, how had the two felt about having children?

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

5. What does the Persian title "Shahanshahe" (90) mean, according to Kimiâ?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Kimiâ's understanding of the source of her social anxiety?

4. 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)?

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

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

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

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

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

10. To what natural human process does Kimiâ compare exile and why?

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