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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. What university did Firoozeh attend?

2. Who was the leader of the Iranian Revolution?

3. Where in Iran did Firoozeh 's family move from to California?

4. What was the name of Firoozeh's first teacher in the United States?

5. Where is Disneyland Park located?

Short Essay Questions

1. What pet had Francois' grandmother owned in the Congo? What happened to it?

2. Describe the difficulty Firoozeh faced after changing her name. What did she change it to?

3. Where did the narrator move when she was seven? How did her family feel about the move?

4. What fast food restaurants did Nematollah and Kazem visit during Nematollah's stay? What was their consensus?

5. Who did Firoozeh meet with before beginning school in the United States? What was the meeting like?

6. How does the narrator describe America's knowledge of her home country in her youth?

7. What had Nazirah wanted to study? Why didn't she?

8. Where did Kazem invite several Iranian colleagues in Chapter 4? What impression did he make?

9. What differences were there between Newport Beach and Berkeley regarding Iranians in Chapter 7?

10. What happened when Firoozeh's teacher showed the class a map in Chapter 1?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Newport Beach, California, and the ethnic, racial and cultural stereotypes presented in the reading. Why did people think the Dumas family was Mexican?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Francois, India and Paris. Where did Firoozeh and Francois meet? How did he feel about her heritage?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the settings of Abadan, Iran and Whittier, California. In what year did the Dumas family move? What global and national events were happening at this time?

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