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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. Which of Kimiâ's sisters usually insists on calling her at the crack of dawn?
(a) Sara.
(b) Nour.
(c) Mina.
(d) Leïli.

2. Which one of Kimiâ's uncles calls frequent meetings with his brothers to talk about their daughters' reputations?
(a) Uncle Number Two.
(b) Uncle Number One.
(c) Uncle Number Six.
(d) Uncle Number Three.

3. Which sea borders the province of Mazandaran in Iran?
(a) Caspian.
(b) Red.
(c) Black.
(d) Mediterranean.

4. Kimiâ reports often relegating her instructions to a waiter or salesperson to how many words during her time living in Paris?
(a) 1.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 10.

5. Kimiâ states in Chapter 7 that "an exile" (140) is condemned to commit what act?
(a) To sleep.
(b) To leave.
(c) To exist.
(d) To wander.

Short Answer Questions

1. What items are described in the prologue as serving "up their own reality" (11)?

2. By whom was Kimiâ's name chosen?

3. Darius is said to have had a "spot" of what substance "on the middle finger of his right hand" (82) at the time he met Sara?

4. What did the doctor tell Kimiâ would happen if she moved around before she has fully recuperated from her illness?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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)?

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

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

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