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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 Mrs. Medhi ask Sahar as they drive to Nasrin's wedding?
(a) If she thinks Nasrin will have children soon.
(b) If she likes Reza.
(c) If she is happy for Nasrin.
(d) If she understands her relationship with Nasrin is over now.

2. What does Nasrin tell Sahar outside by her pool when Sahar says Nasrin should marry her instead of Reza?
(a) She would run away with her now if she wanted her to.
(b) She begs her to help stop the wedding.
(c) She thought she would never ask.
(d) Sahar is living a fantasy.

3. What does Nasrin ask when she first sees Sahar after Reza brought her to their home in Chapter 20?
(a) If she can tell she has been crying.
(b) What she is doing there.
(c) If she misses her.
(d) Why she did not move with Ali.

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

5. What was Baba able to afford with Ali's money?
(a) A new workspace and an assistant.
(b) A new car.
(c) A new apartment.
(d) A cook.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Sahar tell Reza when he is playing classical Iranian music in his car?

3. What does Behrooz tell Sahar she must do in order to begin taking hormones?

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

5. What type of flower does Baba buy for them to put on his wife's grave at the cemetery?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ali tell Sahar about how Nasrin might see her if she were to go through with reassignment surgery?

2. Why does Goli warn Sahar against getting hormones from a dealer as Behrooz tells her she can? What example does she offer?

3. Where does Ali plan to move in Chapter 17? Why will Sahar not go with him? What does Ali say to her refusal?

4. Who proposes to Dariush in Chapter 14? How does Mrs. Medhi feel about this proposal?

5. 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?

6. Describe the conversation between Baba and Sahar about whether or not she will go to Turkey with Ali.

7. How does Reza treat Ali when he comes to the apartment?

8. What are some of the traditions that are part of Nasrin's wedding?

9. Who brings Ali to Baba and Sahar's apartment? What happeend to him?

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

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