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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. When did President Carter host a visit to the White House by the Shah of Iran?

2. What is the name of the modern calendar in Iran?

3. Where did Firoozeh take a boring and joyless part-time job to save money for college in Chapter 20?

4. When did a league of oil companies and countries boycott Iranian oil, which crippled Iran's economy?

5. What does Shah translate to?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Kazem and Nazireh celebrate their birthdays each year?

2. For how long did the Dumas family watch the Iran hostage crisis on television? How did it impact them?

3. How did Firoozeh's parents feel about her fiance? How did his?

4. What did Firoozeh think was bad karma in San Francisco? What did she do with it?

5. How did Kazem feel going to sell the family's house in Iran in Chapter 19?

6. How did Firoozeh feel about her stay in Paris in Chapter 21?

7. What kind of ceremonies did Firoozeh and Francois have at their wedding?

8. What did Kazem tell his daughter when she asked him to stop eating forbidden foods in Chapter 15?

9. When did Firoozeh consider plastic surgery? Why?

10. How did Firoozeh feel about the Christmas season growing up?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How religious was the Dumas family? What aspects of the Qur'an were overlooked in their household and why?

Essay Topic 2

What is the symbolic meaning of Disneyland in the narrative? What did it represent for Kazem?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the importance of education for Kazem and his family. What did education represent to the Dumas family?

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