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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 kind of shoe does Cyrus wear?
(a) Crocs.
(b) Doc Martens.
(c) Converse.
(d) Vans.

2. What was Cyrus’s college major?
(a) English.
(b) Education.
(c) Mechanical Engineering.
(d) Accounting.

3. Which of the following does Cyrus’s mother quote at Lisa Simpson?
(a) Adélia Prado.
(b) Rachel de Queiroz.
(c) Hilda Hilst.
(d) Cora Coralina.

4. At what museum does Orkideh have her final installation?
(a) Guggenheim.
(b) Cooper Union.
(c) MoMA.
(d) Brookyln.

5. To which of the following does the hospital contrast Cyrus?
(a) Rock Hudson.
(b) James Dean.
(c) Marlon Brando.
(d) Charlie Sheen.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date is Cyrus born?

2. How much is Cyrus’s mother’s bounty?

3. Who provides the epigraph to the novel?

4. What profession does Cyrus’s mother tell Lisa Simpson she had wanted to have?

5. What kind of shoe does Zee wear?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Jude recommend Zee and Cyrus use a tire?

4. Why does Cyrus dislike Bluebarn?

5. Why does Ali hate baby formula?

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

7. What is the nature of Orkideh’s final installation?

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

9. Why does Orkideh prize feet?

10. What function does a whiskey bottle serve for Cyrus?

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