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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. How much does Cyrus leave as a tip for the hotel housekeeper?

2. Which of the following is brought to Cyrus after he collapses at the museum?

3. From where did Ferdowsi come?

4. What word does Cyrus hear called out by the crowd in the dream-vision he has of his father and Rumi?

5. Which of the following does Cyrus cite for comments about grief?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ali note his wife had looked at him?

2. Why does Cyrus sit outside with Zee at a café near Prospect Park?

3. What does the docent who sees Cyrus collapse in the museum discuss with Cyrus?

4. Why does Sang Linh posit Orkideh did not tell Cyrus she was his mother?

5. To what does Cyrus ascribe his inability to focus on the now?

6. Why is Arash not allowed to provide water to other soldiers?

7. Why had Arash listened to Allegri’s Miserere?

8. What is Cyrus’s early publication history?

9. What was the content of Shipping and Handling?

10. Per Orkideh, what marks out grace?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

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

Assuming that Martyr! should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

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