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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. What article of clothing receives attention in “Captain’s Holiday,” per Darius?
2. Which of the following is Stephen’s favorite place to kiss Shirin when others are present?
3. The novel suggests that the phrase “afiat basheh” is equivalent to which of the following?
4. What cause of death is given for Sohrab’s father?
5. Which of the following ends up as one of Sohrab and Darius’s teammates?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Darius end up feeling sorry for Ali-Reza?
2. In the baad gir in Yazd, Darius is taken by what he sees. What is it that he sees?
3. What reason does Stephen give for having stopped telling Darius stories?
4. Why does Darius note that Stephen’s chin scratches him?
5. What is sky burial in the novel?
6. In the group soccer game Darius and Sohrab play against Ali-Reza and Hossein, there is a metaphor in the opposing team’s goal being “completely undefended” against Sohrab’s play (247)? What is the vehicle to the undefended goal’s tenor, and how is it connected?
7. What is Persian Casual, in Darius’s estimation?
8. Why, per Darius, is kabob koobideh “the most suspicious-looking” of Persian foods (259-60)?
9. What are the three things Darius notes liking in Sohrab while walking with him and his family?
10. What does Darius note wanting to learn from Simin, but which he is unable to ask after?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Darius muses on the word “Aryan” and its multiple—and multiply uncomfortable—meanings (13-14). What other words have such shades of meaning in the novel? What in the text indicates those meanings, and how does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
Consider the following:
“Stephen Kellner always gave everyone the benefit of the doubt.
“Everyone except me” (184).
Does the novel as a whole support or reject the assertion? What in the novel sustains that support or rejection? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
Consider the following passage:
“[Laleh] was a replacement. An upgrade. I knew that without anyone saying it out loud.
“And I knew Stephen Kellner was relieved to have another chance, a new child who wouldn’t be such a disappointment. It was written across his face every time he smiled at her. Every time he sighed at me.
“I didn’t blame Laleh for that.
“I really didn’t.
“But sometimes I wondered if I was the one who was an accident.
“That’s normal.
“Right?” (133).
Answer Darius’s question for the novel. Is it normal? What in the novel says it is or is not? How does it say so?
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