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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Big Sister’s nickname for Mayako?
(a) Little Turnip.
(b) Little Sister.
(c) Little Coconut.
(d) Little Carrot.

2. What does Mahmoud tell the man with a club about Sarah when he approaches them in the square?
(a) She is an American tourist.
(b) She is his wife.
(c) She is his sister.
(d) She should be arrested.

3. What do the people in the temple repeat every morning?
(a) The Imperial Rescript on Education.
(b) The Imperial Mobilization Mantra.
(c) The Imperial Educational Transcript.
(d) The Imperial Prayer.

4. What does someone say when a teenage girl throws herself overboard and someone suggests they help her?
(a) One less mouth to feed.
(b) She was no good anyway.
(c) Let her be if that is what she wants.
(d) Get the life preserver!

5. What does Parvin say she realized the mourning parade really is?
(a) Religious.
(b) Evil.
(c) Nonsense.
(d) Sexual.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the man who approaches Sarah at the airport at the start of “Tehran Calling” tell her he is?

2. What reason does Mahmoud give to Sarah for why the man in the procession cut his head?

3. What was the purpose of Parvin’s radio show in America?

4. Who does Roya tell Sarah had been shot in 1999 in the same square in which the rally will take place?

5. What do the children play at the temple, which leaves some of them in tears?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Mai’s mother send her the day after visiting her father in the hospital?

2. Where is Mayako at the beginning of “Hirsoshima” and what is she doing with the other girls per Mrs. Sasaki’s orders?

3. What was Parvin’s radio program in the states called and what was its purpose?

4. Describe the play Parvin had seen when Sarah had arrived in Iran.

5. How crowded is the boat as described on p. 247 of “The Boat”?

6. Who is Roya and what role does she take in regards to Sarah’s visit to Parvin’s parent’s villa?

7. What does Big Sister bring Mayako to do with the Volunteer Corps?

8. What does Mayako tell Mrs. Tamura after her parents visit her at the temple on Visiting Day?

9. How does Mayako’s mother describe her life as a child?

10. What are some of the first images Sarah sees in the terminal at the start of “Tehran Calling”?

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