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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Seven through Fourteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where does Edgar come?
(a) Guatemala.
(b) Costa Rica.
(c) El Salvador.
(d) Panama.

2. Which of the following does Cyrus cite to Orkideh?
(a) WEB Du Bois.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Jesse Jackson.
(d) Malcolm X.

3. What hourly rate does Cyrus earn for his work at the hospital?
(a) $10.
(b) $25.
(c) $15.
(d) $20.

4. Which of the following does Cyrus address in dream-visons?
(a) Mallarmé.
(b) Verlaine.
(c) Baudelaire.
(d) Rimbaud.

5. Who provides the epigraph to the novel?
(a) Cecília Meireles.
(b) Clarice Lispector.
(c) Virginia Woolf.
(d) Lygia Fagundes Telles.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the novel gloss the term “palliative”?

2. From which of the following groups does Zee claim descent?

3. In what role does Cyrus harangue a medical student?

4. Which of the following spirits does Ali favor?

5. What prayer does Arash note had been his favorite?

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