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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. With what flower is the beginning of the Iranian Revolution associated in the novel?

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

3. What profession does Cyrus’s mother tell Lisa Simpson she had wanted to have?

4. Which of the following mimics Bob Dylan at the Naples open mic?

5. Which of the following does Cyrus address in dream-visons?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Cyrus dislike Bluebarn?

2. Why does Ali hate baby formula?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why does Ali like Westerns?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of countries, what would likely prompt bans of Martyr!? By which groups? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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