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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 do illicitly?

2. For which of the following roles is Cyrus asked to wear a hospital gown?

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

4. What art style does Orkideh claim Persia developed before any European?

5. Which of the following does Cyrus have a picture of in his apartment?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Orkideh prize feet?

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

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

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

7. Why does Cyrus dislike Bluebarn?

8. Why does Cyrus find American hookah bars suspect?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

In the novel, some characters are given but one name, while others are given first- and surnames, and still others are accorded names and titles. What significance, if any, accrues to patterns of naming in the novel? If no significance accrues, what purpose might be served by the patterns of naming in the novel? How does Martyr! bear as much out?

Essay Topic 3

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

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