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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. What name does Cyrus give to his imagined younger brother?

2. Of what does Cyrus note Orkideh smells?

3. In what year did Orkideh exhibit Shipping and Handling?

4. Which of the following does Cyrus see in a dream-vision?

5. What quotation accompanies the closure notice on Orkideh’s final installation?

Short Essay Questions

1. Per Orkideh, what marks out grace?

2. What was the content of Shipping and Handling?

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

4. What comments does Cyrus make that lead to a falling-out with Zee?

5. Why does Orkideh note the Mona Lisa is notable?

6. Why does Ferdowsi give away the copper he receives?

7. How is Orkideh initially thought to have died?

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

9. Why does Ali retain contraband records in Iran?

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

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