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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. What does the reader learn about Ali in Chapter 1?
2. What does Sahar feel certain is going to happen when the officer stops in the alley near Tehran University?
3. Where does Sahar ask Parveen to meet her at the start of Chapter 6?
4. Why does Sahar choose a hot pink dress to wear to the dinner at the Medhi's in Chapter 2?
5. What does Ali say about Sahar when he introduces her to his friends?
Short Essay Questions
1. How are Sahar and Nasrin different physically, academically, and in their future goals?
2. Where does Parveen bring Sahar at the start of Chapter 8? Why?
3. What happens when a mother overhears Parveen discussing being transsexual at Max Burger? How does Parveen react?
4. What does Sahar's father catch her doing in his room when he is gone? What excuse does she give to him? What does he say about how she looks?
5. 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?
6. How are Sahar and Nasrin's homes different? What are their homes like? With whom do they live?
7. Why are Nasrin and Sahar worried about what happened if someone finds out they are lovers? What happened to two boys in Mashad?
8. Why does Nasrin get stopped they the police while walking home from school with Sahar and a group of school friends?
9. 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?
10. Who is Dariush? How is he described? How does he feel about Nasrin's engagement?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing the symbolic significance Sahar's family's economic status has on the story. Why is this important and how does it develop the themes of the story? What would be different if her family were wealthy? Use examples from the text to support your viewpoint.
Essay Topic 2
Sahar's mother died five years before the story begins when she was just 12. How does this loss impact Sahar and her family life at 17?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss elements of the narrative structure: Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the novel's themes?
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