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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Sahar enters Nasrin's room where she has her music playing very loudly?
(a) Sahar yells at Nasrin for agreeing to marry Reza.
(b) Nasrin and Sahar laugh at all the ridiculous dresses Nasrin has.
(c) Nasrin yells at Sahar for not visiting.
(d) Nasrin kisses her more passionately than ever.

2. What do Nasrin and her mother constantly argue about in Chapter 9?
(a) How much money they are spending.
(b) Whether or not she should marry Reza.
(c) Which dress to buy.
(d) Why Sahar had to come with them.

3. What did Sahar's mother die from?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Car crash.
(c) Cancer.
(d) A heart attack.

4. What does Sahar feel certain is going to happen when the officer stops in the alley near Tehran University?
(a) He is going to take them to prison.
(b) He is going to call their parents.
(c) He is going to let them go.
(d) He is going to rape them.

5. Why are Sahar and Nasrin not afraid to hold hands when Sahar meets Nasrin at her school in Chapter 7?
(a) It is customary for people of the same gender to hold hands.
(b) Nasrin's friends all know about she and Sahar.
(c) They have decided to be open about their relationship.
(d) Nobody else is around.

6. What does Sahar tell Mrs. Medhi when she asks why she has not been visiting?
(a) She does not enjoy being in their house.
(b) She has been taking care of her father.
(c) She has been studying.
(d) She is sad Nasrin is getting married.

7. Where does Sahar go with Nasrin and her mother at the start of Chapter 9?
(a) To Nasrin's father's work.
(b) To Reza's house.
(c) Dress shopping.
(d) Out to lunch.

8. What does Nasrin hope to become when she is older?
(a) A teacher.
(b) An actress.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A beautician.

9. Why does Sahar ask for aaa gosht for dinner when Baba offers to cook?
(a) It was her mother's favorite.
(b) It is her favorite.
(c) It is easy to make.
(d) She knows how much Baba likes it.

10. What does Sima do?
(a) She attends Tehran University.
(b) She is a doctor.
(c) She goes to school with Sahar.
(d) She works for the Medhis.

11. What happened to two boys years earlier in Mashad which many believe was because they were lovers?
(a) They were hanged.
(b) They were arrested.
(c) They committed suicide together.
(d) They were married.

12. How long ago did Sahar's mother die?
(a) 5 months.
(b) 6 weeks.
(c) 12 years.
(d) 5 years.

13. What does the reader learn about Ali in Chapter 1?
(a) He attends university and he is gay.
(b) He is very religious and he disapproves of Sahar.
(c) He is poor and he wants to marry Nasrin.
(d) He quit school and is a drug addict.

14. Why has Sahar been carrying around a book of Persian poetry since Ali's party?
(a) To give to Parveen.
(b) To give to Farshad.
(c) To give to Daughter if she sees her again.
(d) To read to Nasrin.

15. What does Ali say about Sahar when he introduces her to his friends?
(a) She is gay like the rest of them.
(b) She is his boring cousin.
(c) She is the guest of honor.
(d) She is his favorite cousin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sahar stand in the back of the bus on the way to Ali's party?

2. Which of Parveen body parts looks masculine to Sahar?

3. What does the young girl in the Mercedes tell Sahar her favorite subject in school used to be?

4. What does Goli tell the group Sahar has, just like the rest of them?

5. What lie did Sahar tell her father when she was really meeting Parveen at the meeting?

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