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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 Ali give to the young girl who picks Sahar up from his party in Chapter 4?
2. What is different about Daughter when she and Mom pick Sahar and Nasrin up at Restaurant Javan?
3. How old was Sahar when she first met Ali?
4. Why is Mrs. Medhi happy when she comes home to find Sahar and Dariush drinking tea?
5. How long before the narrative began did Sahar and Nasrin first kiss?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Nasrin get stopped they the police while walking home from school with Sahar and a group of school friends?
2. How do Ali and Nasrin interact when Ali first arrives at Restaurant Javan?
3. Where does Parveen bring Sahar at the start of Chapter 8? Why?
4. Who is Dariush? How is he described? How does he feel about Nasrin's engagement?
5. What happens when a mother overhears Parveen discussing being transsexual at Max Burger? How does Parveen react?
6. What does Ali give Sahar that makes her realize he knows she is gay? How does she react?
7. How does Nasrin react when she realizes that the clientele at Restaurant Javan are gay and trans?
8. Why are Nasrin and Sahar worried about what happened if someone finds out they are lovers? What happened to two boys in Mashad?
9. At what moment does Sahar loosen up at Ali's party? Who helps her?
10. What has Sahar been carrying with her since she met Daughter in case she sees her again. Why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an analysis of Mom and Daughter's characters in If You Could Be Mine. In what ways to these two characters develop the plot. How does meeting them impact Sahar? What does Daughter's character add to the story? What would change if these characters did not exist?
Essay Topic 2
Examine the use of dialogue vs the use of description. Look at how each is used in If You Could Be Mine and what makes these uses effective or ineffective
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay on how the story would change if written from Nasrin's point of view rather than Sahar's.
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