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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. The comment that “The house felt cozy, like a Hobbit-hole” (206) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Kenning.
(b) Simile.
(c) Conceit.
(d) Metaphor.

2. How old is Darius’s cousin Navid?
(a) 21.
(b) 23.
(c) 19.
(d) 17.

3. The term “noon-e sangak” carries which of the following meanings, per the novel?
(a) Oven-baked flatbread.
(b) Deep-fried flatbread.
(c) Stone-baked flatbread.
(d) Day-old flatbread.

4. What does Darius report is his psychiatrist’s saying about depression?
(a) It is anger turned outwards.
(b) It is anger turned inwards.
(c) It is his own fault.
(d) It is chronic and unending.

5. The comment that “Like Frodo when he wore the One Ring, I had slipped back into the Twilight world” (248) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Conceit.
(c) Kenning.
(d) Analogy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Darius note is incorporated into Persian ice cream?

2. Which of the following ends up as one of Sohrab and Darius’s teammates?

3. Which of the following does Darius note is incorporated into Persian ice cream?

4. What article of clothing receives attention in “Captain’s Holiday,” per Darius?

5. In which of the following colors are the Bahramis’ boxes of jasmine painted?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is sekanjabin in the novel?

2. What reasons does Shirin give for not having taught Darius Farsi?

3. In the group soccer game Darius and Sohrab play against Ali-Reza and Hossein, the earlier epithet for Dairus, “Ayatollah,” is repeated but reimagined or reappropriated (249). What was its original meaning, as applied to Darius, and what is its reappropriated meaning?

4. Why, per Darius, is kabob koobideh “the most suspicious-looking” of Persian foods (259-60)?

5. What is Persian Casual, in Darius’s estimation?

6. What is sky burial in the novel?

7. What reason does Stephen give for having stopped telling Darius stories?

8. What mess does Darius note is left by the Bahrami Nowruz celebration?

9. What does Darius confess to Sohrab that leads him to affirm that Laleh cannot take his place?

10. Why, as Darius asserts to Sohrab at the Bahrami Nowruz celebration, does he think Stephen does not love him?

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