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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. How old was Sara when she married Darius?
(a) 20.
(b) 30.
(c) 35.
(d) 25.

2. What items are described in the prologue as serving "up their own reality" (11)?
(a) Stereotypes.
(b) Short order cooks.
(c) Memories.
(d) Religious leaders.

3. In the final words of the novel's prologue, Kimiâ states that she is taking what action?
(a) Crying.
(b) Waiting.
(c) Thinking.
(d) Grieving.

4. In what year was Mina born?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1977.

5. Sara told her children that she had always wanted to marry a man with which two features?
(a) Baldness and blue eyes.
(b) Blue eyes and glasses.
(c) A well-coiffed head of hair and brown eyes.
(d) Green eyes and strong hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. What activity had Darius been doing in his office when he got the news that Sara's water had broken?

2. What false meaning does Darius provide for the term "vagin" (106) when he lies about it?

3. In Side A: Chapter 1, what sets Kimiâ apart from the other people around her?

4. Kimiâ states in the prologue, "All I know is that these pages won't be" (13) what?

5. Which character's "two sentences" are seen by Kimiâ to perfectly encapsulate "the Iranian woman's lot" (69)?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the theme of loss intertwined with the theme of transformation within Chapter 3?

2. What explanation does Emma provide for the unexpected circumstances surrounding Kimiâ's birth?

3. What is Kimiâ's understanding of the source of her social anxiety?

4. In what way does Kimiâ acknowledge within the prologue her own fallibility as a narrator?

5. What message about the nature of superstition is sent within Side A: Chapter 6?

6. In what way does the music motif arise within Kimiâ's discussion of integration?

7. What sort of evidence does Kimiâ provide in order to back up her claim that the phrase "effort to integrate" lacks both "sincerity and openness" (111)?

8. Provide an example of a social situation in which Kimiâ feels anxiety.

9. What distinction does Kimia make between the two terms of Sara and Mom and what is her purpose in doing so?

10. What does the escalator symbolize within the prologue of Disoriental?

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