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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. What had Darius been planning to do if he chose not to write a controversial article for the newspaper?
(a) Flee.
(b) Retire.
(c) Buy the newspaper.
(d) Resign.

2. To what band does Kimiâ allude within her discussion of integration in Chapter 6?
(a) The Cure.
(b) The Mars Volta.
(c) The Smiths.
(d) The Clash.

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

4. Kimiâ states in Side A: Chapter 1 that Darius used to say that what part of the body is a "better listener than the ears" (21)?
(a) The nose.
(b) The scalp.
(c) The collarbone.
(d) The eye.

5. What malady did Kimiâ contract in her childhood that caused a doctor to tell her she had to remain motionless?
(a) Malaria.
(b) Measles.
(c) Mumps.
(d) Chicken Pox.

Short Answer Questions

1. What items does Emma use to predict the future, a time-honored tradition that has been passed down through generations?

2. Darius had viewed parenthood in the way most people view what object, according to Kimiâ?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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)?

7. According to Kimiâ, how did her successful transition to living by the cultural codes of France change her personality?

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

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

10. What significant event occurs on October 25, 1967 within the Sadr family?

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