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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 Saadi tell his family about Art before Art comes to study?

2. What do Judy, Stephen and Art always do on Sunday nights?

3. Which celebrity does Reza come to love?

4. What does Judy compliment Reza's mother on?

5. What is Art's full name?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the class difference between Art and Judy?

2. Why does Reza say he wants to take Judy to dinner alone?

3. What is the nature of Art's and Stephen's relationship?

4. What makes Judy uneasy about her relationship with Reza?

5. What does Reza do in an act of desperation in Part I shortly after moving to New York?

6. Why does Reza steal from Abbas?

7. What do Stephen, Judy, and Art bond over?

8. What recent enormous loss is Stephen suffering from?

9. Why does Reza like Madonna so much?

10. What happens when two obviously gay men come into the restaurant where Judy is eating with Reza's family?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Nazemian explain Reza's choice to pretend to be romantically interested in Judy, and what does this choice reveal about Reza's character? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How does Nazemian describe the impact of not only Reza's father's death, but of Reza's very fraught relationship with his father? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

How does Reza's reaction the first time he meets Stephen highlight and explain some of the stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS in 1989 in America? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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