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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Satrapi make Anoosh’s story make sense?
(a) She focuses only on the things he was given to eat.
(b) She tells herself it is just like books she has read.
(c) She forbids anyone to suffer like he did, when she is in charge.
(d) She compares his trials to her friend’s father’s trials.-

2. What was Satrapi’s grandfather’s role in the Iranian government?
(a) He was prime minister
(b) He was king
(c) He was a political prisoner
(d) He was a local leader

3. What is Marjane Satrapi’s relation to the deposed king?
(a) He was her great-grandfather
(b) He was her uncle
(c) He was her grandfather
(d) He was her great-uncle

4. What has started to show up in the streets, now that the war is going on?
(a) Street people
(b) Graves
(c) Car bombs
(d) Nuptial chambers

5. What does Satrapi’s mother threaten to do to her, if she beats up Ramin?
(a) Make her clean the house
(b) Cast her out of the family
(c) Send her to rot in prison
(d) Nail her ears to the wall

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Iran’s name from the sixth century B.C. till 1935?

2. What does Satrapi tell Pardisse after they give their reports?

3. Marjane Satrapi’s father tells her the story of Iran. What did the king’s father, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, organize 50 years ago?

4. How old was Satrapi’s maid when she came to live with the family?

5. Why does Satrapi love Anoosh right away?

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