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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the novel render the term “dudusch”?
(a) Father.
(b) Brother.
(c) Mother.
(d) Sister.

2. Which of the following does Cyrus’s imagined young brother claim to love?
(a) Walnuts.
(b) Pistachios.
(c) Pecans.
(d) Hazelnuts.

3. How does the novel render the term “negargari”?
(a) Byzantine miniatures.
(b) Alexandrian icons.
(c) Carolingian majuscules.
(d) Mughal frescoes.

4. What moniker do Cyrus and Zee assign to the sitting President of the United States?
(a) Obscenity.
(b) Insult.
(c) Derogation.
(d) Invective.

5. What television program do Cyrus and Zee discuss?
(a) Futurama.
(b) The Honeymooners.
(c) Frasier.
(d) Home Improvement.

6. From where did Ferdowsi come?
(a) Kardeh.
(b) Kharv.
(c) Neqab.
(d) Tus.

7. From which of the following does Cyrus’s mother fly to New York?
(a) Baku.
(b) Ashgabat.
(c) Ankara.
(d) Damascus.

8. Zee buys an album from which of the following artists?
(a) Blue Mammoth.
(b) Da Vinci’s Notebook.
(c) Mastodon.
(d) Tyrannosaurus Rex.

9. Per the novel, how does the Big Book refer to resentment?
(a) The weight.
(b) The brainstorm.
(c) The nag.
(d) The grouch.

10. Who trains Arash in his peculiar assignment?
(a) Aratar.
(b) Ar-Zimraphel.
(c) Arman.
(d) Archibald.

11. What quotation accompanies the closure notice on Orkideh’s final installation?
(a) “So long, and thanks for all the fish.”
(b) “Art is where what we survive survives.”
(c) “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
(d) “All we are is dust in the wind.”

12. To which of the following does Cyrus compare himself?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Macbeth.
(c) Othello.
(d) Coriolanus.

13. What does Cyrus notice for sale outside the museum when he leaves it after collapsing?
(a) Biryanis.
(b) Meat pies.
(c) Knish.
(d) Samosas.

14. In what year did Orkideh divorce Sang Linh?
(a) 1997.
(b) 1993.
(c) 2001.
(d) 2005.

15. Which of the following does Cyrus’s mother watch with Leila?
(a) A giraffe.
(b) A rhinoceros.
(c) A honey badger.
(d) A gnu.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Cyrus cite for comments about grief?

2. How does the novel render the term “badbadak”?

3. Which of the following does Cyrus think he sees in the dream-vision featuring Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?

4. What is reported as the literal translation of the Persian word for an eyebrow?

5. What spice does Orkideh note adding to her tea?

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