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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 convey her newfound maturity in Chapter 15?
(a) She has been to her first protest
(b) She has begun to smoke
(c) She has her first boyfriend
(d) She has older friends

2. Why did Satrapi’s mother dye her hair?
(a) Because she had been mistaken for a Westerner and did not want to give that impression
(b) Because she had been caught stealing from her job
(c) Because she had been photographed at a protest against the government
(d) Because she wanted to look younger and had too much gray hair

3. What does Marjane Satrapi understand as a result of her reading?
(a) She wanted to be a prophet
(b) Her parents had wanted to flee the country
(c) She was ashamed to ride in her father's Cadillac
(d) Her parents had protested to preserve the old aristocracy

4. What is Satrapi’s reaction to her father’s reaction to the romance between Mehri and the neighbor boy?
(a) She complains to her mother
(b) She protests it
(c) She continues writing letters
(d) She sulks in her room

5. What role does Satrapi’s mother play when the family is stopped by Guardians of the Revolution?
(a) She tempts the soldier
(b) She mollifies the soldier
(c) She antagonizes the soldier
(d) She kills the soldier

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Marjane Satrapi’s relation to the deposed king?

2. What does Satrapi’s father tell the teacher?

3. What happened to Pardisse’s father during the attack on Iraq?

4. What Marjane Satrapi’s solution to not knowing anything?

5. Why was the punishment Satrapi’s neighbor paid for having Western music in his house?

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