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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. Which of the following does Cyrus quote at Gabe?

2. Which of the following had Cyrus borrowed and not returned?

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

4. With what Chicago team’s logo is the lighter marked that Cyrus considers using to burn himself?

5. On what day does Orkideh’s final installation open?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ali hate baby formula?

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

3. What is meant in the novel by Iranian ugliness?

4. What function does a whiskey bottle serve for Cyrus?

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

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

7. Why does Cyrus dislike Bluebarn?

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

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

10. Why does Arash appreciate being labeled as an expendable soldier?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Does the epigraph of Martyr! do so for the present novel? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

To what genre other than urban fiction might Martyr! be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

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

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