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

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

3. What is reported as the literal translation of the Persian word for an eyebrow?
(a) Face-caterpillar.
(b) Brow-rug.
(c) Window-guard.
(d) Cloud-above.

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

5. What word does Cyrus hear called out by the crowd in the dream-vision he has of his father and Rumi?
(a) Dirge.
(b) Threnody.
(c) Lament.
(d) Elegy.

Short Answer Questions

1. To which of the following artist’s works does Cyrus compare Orkideh’s appearance?

2. After what sword is Arasah’s sword modeled?

3. What moniker do Cyrus and Zee assign to the sitting President of the United States?

4. Which of the following does Cyrus see in a dream-vision?

5. To which of the following does Cyrus long to apologize after his collapse at the museum?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Ferdowsi commissioned to write the Shahnameh?

2. Why does Cyrus sit outside with Zee at a café near Prospect Park?

3. Why had Arash listened to Allegri’s Miserere?

4. Why does Sang Linh posit Orkideh did not tell Cyrus she was his mother?

5. What gift does Orkideh give Cyrus for his project?

6. How is Orkideh initially thought to have died?

7. What does the front desk clerk at Cyrus’s hotel ask him when he checks out?

8. Per Orkideh, what marks out grace?

9. Why does Ali retain contraband records in Iran?

10. Why does Cyrus posit Sang Linh is able to function so soon after Orkideh’s death?

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