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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. From where does Jean-Joseph come?
(a) Somalia.
(b) Congo.
(c) Eritrea.
(d) Guinea.

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

3. Where did Ali go camping with Gilgamesh?
(a) Ardabil.
(b) Rasht.
(c) Lahijan.
(d) Babol.

4. For which of the following roles is Cyrus asked to wear a hospital gown?
(a) Daisy VanBogaert.
(b) Jenna Washington.
(c) Buck Stapleton.
(d) Franz Links.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What rank does William M. Fogarty hold?

2. What kind of shoe does Cyrus wear?

3. Which of the following groups’ work had Cyrus’s mother intended to take to Arash?

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

5. To whom is the novel dedicated?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Orkideh prize feet?

2. In the novel, what is “good-person drag” (13)?

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

4. Why is an empty bottle a source of comfort for an airline traveler?

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

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

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

8. Why does Cyrus find American hookah bars suspect?

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

10. Why does Ali hate baby formula?

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