Darius the Great Is Not Okay Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Adib Khorram
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 116 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Darius the Great Is Not Okay Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Adib Khorram
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 116 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. The word “amou” means which of the following, per the novel?

2. The word “salaam” means which of the following, per the novel?

3. The phrase “Persians are even more meticulous than Hobbits” (87) offers an example of which of the following?

4. What size shoe does Sohrab wear?

5. What color are the “truck nuts” left with Darius’s bicycle?

Short Essay Questions

1. Near the end of “Bette Davis Eyes,” what does Darius report wanting and failing to tell Ardeshir?

2. What reasons does Darius give for mistrusting his mother’s assertion that his eyes are beautiful?

3. What is Ardeshir doing when Darius first sees him in Iran?

4. What is Surrender Cobra?

5. What reasons does Darius give for not eating falafel at home?

6. In what condition do the Bahramis and Kellners find Persepolis?

7. Why does Darius consider Javaneh brave?

8. What reasons does Darius give for considering Jean-Luc Picard the best Star Trek captain?

9. What occasioned Stephen stopping the fire-jumping celebration, and what caused him to resume it?

10. What games are included in Darius’s “net sports” unit?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Darius muses that “she [Fariba] and Babou were seated in the very front, the binary suns of the Bahrami family solar system” (174). Explicate the metaphor (e.g, what are its tenor and vehicle, what does it imply about those encompassed by it, where does it fail?).

Essay Topic 2

Consider the following:

“I was one tiny pulsar in a swirling, luminous galaxy of Iranians, held together by the gravity of thousands of years of culture and heritage.

“There was nothing like it back home.

“Maybe the Super Bowl.” (220)

Explicate the comparison between the two: millennia-long Persian culture and major U.S. athletic events. What is suggested, and how, based on the novel and experience?

Essay Topic 3

Consider the following exchange between Stephen and Darius:

But then Dad looked at me and said, “Love you, Darius.”

And I said, “Love you, Dad.”

And that meant we weren’t going to talk about it anymore (62).

Why would a mutual affirmation of love foreclose discussion of a topic? What in the text and in experience suggests as much? How does it do so?

(see the answer keys)

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