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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. What does Ali tell Sahar about Parveen at his party in Chapter 4?
(a) She is transsexual.
(b) She is gay.
(c) She is a police officer.
(d) She is his girlfriend.

2. How does Ali get away with having such wild parties?
(a) He pays off the guards.
(b) His parents work for the government.
(c) He rents his apartment under a fake name.
(d) His father is a police officer.

3. What does the mother at a nearby table do when she hears Parveen tell Sahar about being transsexual?
(a) She asks the owner to kick Parveen and Sahar out.
(b) She tells Parveen she is brave.
(c) She rushes her children out of the restaurant.
(d) She calls the police.

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

5. In what way is Sahar more like the type of child Nasrin's parents had hoped for?
(a) She is studious and ambitious.
(b) She is beautiful and social.
(c) She is wealthy and well-mannered.
(d) She is docile and domestic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nasrin tell Sahar her mother had been grooming her all her life to become?

2. How old was Ali when he and Sahar first met?

3. With whom does Sahar have a dance off at Ali's party?

4. What does Sahar notice about both Parveen and Jamshid?

5. What does Baba catch Sahar doing in his room in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Sahar and Nasrin different physically, academically, and in their future goals?

2. Why are Nasrin and Sahar worried about what happened if someone finds out they are lovers? What happened to two boys in Mashad?

3. How does Nasrin react when she realizes that the clientele at Restaurant Javan are gay and trans?

4. How does Sahar learn that Parveen is transsexual?

5. Why is sex reassignment surgery considered legal and government subsidized in Iran? Why do some gay people get this surgery?

6. Why does Nasrin get stopped they the police while walking home from school with Sahar and a group of school friends?

7. Who are Mom and Daughter? What happens when they drive home?

8. To whom is Nasrin engaged? When did he and Nasrin meet? What do readers learn about him at the dinner party in Chapter 2? How does Nasrin introduce Sahar to her fiancé?

9. Why does Mrs. Medhi invite Sahar and her father to dinner at the start of Chapter 2? How does Sahar react when she discovers the reason while in the bathroom with Nasrin?

10. What do Sahar and Parveen eat at a restaurant which always makes Sahar feel American? What does she hear about Americans?

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