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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 channels do Cyrus and Zee watch in their hotel room?

2. What, per Cyrus, is the mortal sin of the suicide?

3. Through which of the following does Leila drag Cyrus’s mother?

4. In what year did Orkideh divorce Sang Linh?

5. How does the novel render the term “sonder”?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. At what cost does Orkideh purchase a painting in Cyrus’s dream-vision?

3. What does the front desk clerk at Cyrus’s hotel ask him when he checks out?

4. How is Ferdowsi commissioned to write the Shahnameh?

5. Why does Ali retain contraband records in Iran?

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

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

8. What gift does Orkideh give Cyrus for his project?

9. How does Cyrus explain his collapse in the museum to the docents?

10. In the novel, what is a myth?

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

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

Essay Topic 3

Similarly, the lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

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