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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which one of Kimiâ's uncles calls frequent meetings with his brothers to talk about their daughters' reputations?
2. What "compulsion" does Kimiâ report having "inherited from Sara" (83)?
3. In what way is Montazemolmolk related to Kimiâ and her sisters?
4. How old was Kimiâ when she pretended to be interested in economics to gain the attention of her father Darius?
5. To what band does Kimiâ allude within her discussion of integration in Chapter 6?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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)?
2. In what way does the theme of deception arise within Chapter Side A: Chapter 7?
3. Provide an example of a social situation in which Kimiâ feels anxiety.
4. What does the escalator symbolize within the prologue of Disoriental?
5. In what way does the music motif arise within Kimiâ's discussion of integration?
6. What is Kimiâ's understanding of the source of her social anxiety?
7. In what way does Kimiâ acknowledge within the prologue her own fallibility as a narrator?
8. Discuss an incident during Kimiâ's childhood that teaches her to distrust male authority figures.
9. According to Kimiâ, how did her successful transition to living by the cultural codes of France change her personality?
10. What message does Djavadi send about the trauma associated with being exiled from one's own homeland?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze the ways in which the themes of adaptability and resignation appear within Djavadi’s novel Disoriental. What message is Djavadi sending about these two themes over the course of the narrative?
Essay Topic 2
Trace the characterization arc of Kimiâ’s character throughout the novel Disoriental. Discuss whether Kimiâ is a round or flat character and whether Kimiâ is a static or dynamic character.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Djavadi’s use of metaphor, simile, imagery, and other literary devices as a means to send particular thematic messages within the narrative of Disoriental.
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