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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 term is used to label habitual Iranian politeness norms?

2. What hourly rate does Cyrus earn for his work at the hospital?

3. How does the novel gloss the term “palliative”?

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

5. Which of the following does Zee idolize?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Cyrus quit smoking?

4. Why does Orkideh prize feet?

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

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

7. What is the nature of Cyrus’s work at the hospital?

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

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

10. How does Cyrus’s mother know she is pregnant with him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the work Cyrus does with medical students. How well does it accord with the rest of his life, as presented in the novel? What in the text indicates as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

How, ultimately, does the novel define martyrdom? What in the text leads to the definition, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Assuming that Martyr! should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

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