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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 color of cleats does Darius procure for Sohrab?
(a) Green.
(b) Red.
(c) Black.
(d) White.
2. Which of the following ends up as one of Sohrab and Darius’s teammates?
(a) Efraim.
(b) Hossein
(c) Suleiman.
(d) Behruz.
3. In the comment, “It’s like he’s always making things hard on himself” (195), the antecedent for the pronoun “he” is which of the following?
(a) Ardeshir.
(b) Stephen.
(c) Sohrab.
(d) Darius.
4. With whom does Darius note the Kellners had sent Farbia and Ardeshir a rice platter?
(a) The Rezaeis.
(b) The Esfahanis.
(c) The Ardekanis.
(d) The Mousavians.
5. How many years prior to the events of the novel was Sohrab’s father transferred to a prison in Tehran?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.
Short Answer Questions
1. In a comment that “the park near the Jameh Mosque […] was becoming our spot” (235), the “our” refers to Darius and which of the following?
2. Which of the following does Darius call “one of the most common place-names in Iran” (240)?
3. The comment that “The house felt cozy, like a Hobbit-hole” (206) offers an example of which of the following?
4. How old is Darius’s cousin Parviz?
5. What does Darius report is his psychiatrist’s saying about depression?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reasons does Darius note for identifying Sohrab as a good listener at the Bahrami Nowruz celebration?
2. Why, as Darius asserts to Sohrab at the Bahrami Nowruz celebration, does he think Stephen does not love him?
3. What are the three things Darius notes liking in Sohrab while walking with him and his family?
4. What reasons does Shirin give for not having taught Darius Farsi?
5. What does Darius wonder about Ardeshir as he helps him set up card tables for serving chelo kabob?
6. Why does Darius realize Sohrab had been surprised he had not agreed to visit him on the day after Nowruz?
7. Why does Darius note that Stephen’s chin scratches him?
8. What is sekanjabin in the novel?
9. Why, per Darius, is kabob koobideh “the most suspicious-looking” of Persian foods (259-60)?
10. What litter does Darius note as he flees from the Rezaei home?
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