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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. Where does Taraneh suggest she and Sahar go alone together?
(a) Mount Tochal.
(b) The movies.
(c) Restaurant Javan.
(d) Taraneh's dorm.

2. Who does Sahar recognize speaking with the doctor in the surgical center?
(a) Reza.
(b) Farshad.
(c) Nasrin.
(d) Ali.

3. What does Sahar tell Mrs. Medhi that Nasrin will get to be, just like her mother?
(a) A nuisance.
(b) A kept woman.
(c) A housewife.
(d) A baby maker.

4. Who went dress shopping with Sahar to find something to wear to Nasrin and Reza's party?
(a) Mrs. Medhi.
(b) Ali.
(c) Parveen.
(d) Baba.

5. Which character speaks of how being checked out by a man makes her feel good because she is now seen as a woman at the meeting in Goli's in Chapter 12?
(a) Parveen.
(b) Katayoun.
(c) Goli.
(d) Maryam.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gift does Nasrin's father give the bride and groom after the ceremony?

2. What did Ali say Farshad wanted that Ali refused to give him?

3. Why are Nasrin and Sahar at a hair salon at the start of Chapter 19?

4. Why does Nasrin say Sima and Dariush could never be married?

5. Who picks Nasrin up in a Mercedes on her wedding day?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are Ali and Baba praying together at the start of Chapter 18? Why is this an usual sight for Sahar to see?

2. Who is Taraneh and what is her relationship with Sahar?

3. How did Reza and Nasrin come to be engaged according to what Reza tells Ali and Sahar in Chapter 11?

4. What do we learn about Maryam in Chapter 14 when Parveen tells Sahar her story?

5. What news does Nasrin share with Sahar at the end of the novel? How does Sahar feel about this? How do you know?

6. Who is Katayoun? What story does she share at Goli's, which she worries makes her seem loose?

7. Who brings Sahar to Nasrin and Reza's engagement party? Why?

8. Why does Reza go to Tehran University to see Sahar? What does he say that makes it seem like he knows about Sahar and Nasrin's relationship?

9. What is Sahar's impression of Reza after she gets to know him at the dinner party at the Medhi's?

10. Where does Nasrin bring Sahar in Chapter 17? Why is this place significant?

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