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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the coffee shop run by an AA member?

2. Which of the following had Cyrus been dating when he met Zee?

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

4. How does the novel render the term “emkanat”?

5. About which of the following is the first excerpt of Cyrus’s project the novel presents?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is there a bounty for Cyrus’s mother?

3. How does Cyrus quit smoking?

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

5. Why does Cyrus find American hookah bars suspect?

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

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

8. Why does Ali like Westerns?

9. Why does Cyrus dislike Bluebarn?

10. Why does Ali caution Cyrus against admitting to his Iranian origin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A lack of formal sectional division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. How might the novel be sectioned off other than it currently is? Why might those divisions be appropriate, based on the text and its contexts of composition and reception?

Essay Topic 2

A lack of formal sectional division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. On what grounds might the current divisions be in place? Why and how are they appropriate to the text?

Essay Topic 3

What is the significance of the interlude between Chapters Seventeen and Eighteen? Explain.

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