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

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

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

5. How tall is Cyrus?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Ali like Westerns?

3. How does Cyrus describe his experience of sobriety to his AA group?

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

5. Why does Cyrus find American hookah bars suspect?

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

7. What does Cyrus want most when God speaks back to him after 27 years?

8. How does Cyrus quit smoking?

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

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

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

A lack of formal sectional division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. On what grounds might the current divisions be in place? Why and how are they appropriate to the text?

Essay Topic 3

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

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