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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ship shot down Flight 655?
(a) USS Victory.
(b) USS Kerrville.
(c) USS Enterprise.
(d) USS Vincennes.

2. What art style does Orkideh claim Persia developed before any European?
(a) Fauvism.
(b) Surrealism.
(c) Cubism.
(d) Expressionism.

3. What term is used to label habitual Iranian politeness norms?
(a) Taarof.
(b) Obsequy.
(c) Keigo.
(d) Takalluf.

4. Ali brings with him from Iran his wife’s drawing of which of the following?
(a) A giraffe.
(b) A gnu.
(c) A honey badger.
(d) A rhinoceros.

5. How old is Cyrus when he visits Orkideh at her installation?
(a) 55.
(b) 28.
(c) 29.
(d) 54.

Short Answer Questions

1. To which of the following is Gabe compared?

2. To which of the following is Arash compared?

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

4. On what day does Orkideh’s final installation open?

5. What is the name of Orkideh’s final installation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What problems does Cyrus note associate with a focus on gratitude?

2. How had Ali tried to stop Cyrus sucking his thumb?

3. Why does Arash appreciate being labeled as an expendable soldier?

4. Why does Zee warn Cyrus against work at the hospital?

5. Why does Gabe rebuke Cyrus for his pretense of mysticism?

6. Why does Ali like Westerns?

7. What is the nature of Cyrus’s work at the hospital?

8. Why does Cyrus’s mother resist becoming a mother?

9. What does Cyrus want most when God speaks back to him after 27 years?

10. What is the grief leave policy at Cyrus’s university?

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