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

2. Cyrus sees a sign for which of the following after checking out of his hotel?
(a) Walgreens.
(b) Duane Reade.
(c) Eckerd.
(d) CVS.

3. What, per Cyrus, is the mortal sin of the suicide?
(a) Greed.
(b) Pride.
(c) Sloth.
(d) Envy.

4. How does the novel render the term “badbadak”?
(a) Sheet.
(b) Ball.
(c) Kite.
(d) Sail.

5. What name does Cyrus give to his imagined younger brother?
(a) Berlioz.
(b) Bach.
(c) Beethoven.
(d) Brahms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Cyrus hear called out by the crowd in the dream-vision he has of his father and Rumi?

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

3. In what colors is Rumi dressed when he appears in Cyrus’s dream-vision?

4. What, per Cyrus, is the mortal sin of the martyr?

5. After whom does Arash long?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Ferdowsi commissioned to write the Shahnameh?

2. Why, per Cyrus, is it particularly American to discount dreams?

3. What was the content of Shipping and Handling?

4. How does Cyrus explain his collapse in the museum to the docents?

5. Why does Ferdowsi give away the copper he receives?

6. In the novel, what is a myth?

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

8. What does the docent who sees Cyrus collapse in the museum discuss with Cyrus?

9. How is Orkideh initially thought to have died?

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

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