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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. Which character transitioned after their brother learned they were gay and threatened to inform the police unless they transitioned?
2. Who does Sahar recognize speaking with the doctor in the surgical center?
3. Who asked Dariush to get married?
4. What does Behrooz tell Sahar she must do in order to begin taking hormones?
5. Why does Nasrin say Sima and Dariush could never be married?
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. Where does Baba take Sahar the day Ali is to leave for Turkey? What happens there?
3. How does Jamshid and Parveen explain the process one must go through in order to get approved for sex reassignment surgery?
4. Who brings Sahar to Nasrin and Reza's engagement party? Why?
5. Why does Sahar pass out in the doctor's office?
6. How did Reza and Nasrin come to be engaged according to what Reza tells Ali and Sahar in Chapter 11?
7. Who brings Ali to Baba and Sahar's apartment? What happeend to him?
8. What news does Nasrin share with Sahar at the end of the novel? How does Sahar feel about this? How do you know?
9. Who is Katayoun? What story does she share at Goli's, which she worries makes her seem loose?
10. Who proposes to Dariush in Chapter 14? How does Mrs. Medhi feel about this proposal?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examine how Restaurant Javan plays a part in the plot of the novel.
Essay Topic 2
What did you learn about homosexuality and transsexuals in Iran from reading If You Could Be Mine? In what ways are the rights of homosexuals similar or different in Iran and the United States? How does this new knowledge change your world view?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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