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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 number is assigned to Arash as he processes into military service?

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

3. In what role does Cyrus harangue a medical student?

4. As which of the following is Reza Shah Street renamed?

5. What medical student does Cyrus harangue?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ali hate baby formula?

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

3. How does Cyrus quit smoking?

4. Why does Orkideh prize feet?

5. What problems does Cyrus note associate with a focus on gratitude?

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

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

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

9. For what does Lisa Simpson rebuke Cyrus’s mother?

10. Why does Cyrus find American hookah bars suspect?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Overall, what is the most important theme of Martyr!? What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Sources attest to the presence of Martyr! on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

The novel returns to its epigraph at its end, giving a fuller quotation there than at the beginning of the text. What effect does it have for the reader, and how is that effect achieved?

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