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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 Sahar ask Nasrin at the end of Chapter 14 when they are in her apartment having tea?

2. What do Sahar and a group of friends hold over Nasrin and Reza during their wedding ceremony?

3. What is Daugther's real name?

4. What does Parveen do when Dr. Hosseini tells Sahar how excruciating the surgery is?

5. Who does Sahar recognize speaking with the doctor in the surgical center?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Mrs. Medhi and Sahar discuss on the ride to Nasrin's wedding?

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

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

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

5. What does Nasrin tell Sahar are the only things she wants of her wedding day after saying she cannot wait to get it over with?

6. What does Baba offer to do for Sahar when she has been depressed after her surgeon's visit? How does Sahar react to this suggestion? What conversation follows?

7. How does Sahar end things with Nasrin while on the telecabine in Chapter 17?

8. Why does Sahar pass out in the doctor's office?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Even though this novel has many characters, what makes Sahar the protagonist of this novel? Compare her role in the novel to definitions of protagonists.

Essay Topic 2

Sahar's mother sacrificed her family fortune to marry a man she loved. Sahar is willing to make an enormous sacrifice and undergo sex reassignment surgery for Nasrin. Write an essay about the theme of sacrifice in If You Could Be Mine.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay comparing and contrasting Nasrin and Sahar in If You Could Be Mine. What details help develop their character and what do these details tell you about them? What is their background? How do they know each other? How do they interact? In what ways are they similar or different? Explain.

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