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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. In what way does Marjane Satrapi emulate her grandfather?
(a) She eats the same diet he was given while in prison
(b) She reads the same books that inspired him
(c) She stays in the bath until her skin is as wrinkled as his
(d) She goes among the people to hear what they think

2. What does Satrapi’s mother say about torturers?
(a) That they should be exiled
(b) That they should be killed
(c) They they should repent
(d) That they should be forgiven

3. When did Western influence in Iran end?
(a) 1885
(b) 1989
(c) 1979
(d) 1885

4. What resource changed Iran’s economy?
(a) Oil
(b) Minerals
(c) Spices
(d) Dyes

5. What does Satrapi say she gave up after talking about torture with her mother?
(a) Agnosticism
(b) Thoughts of revenge
(c) Childish thinking
(d) Dialectical materialism

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Satrapi’s grandmother say the Shah’s father spent the country’s money?

2. What had just happened the year before Satrapi’s story begins?

3. What was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s goal?

4. What prediction does Satrapi’s mother make about Ramin?

5. What is Satrapi’s father’s reaction when he hears about Mehri’s romance with the neighbor boy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Satrapi’s father’s role in the developing political conflict?

2. What traumatic experience does Satrapi’s mother have?

3. What is Satrapi’s family’s connection to the revolution?

4. How is Satrapi’s idea of the Iranian revolution different from her father’s?

5. What lesson does Satrapi’s mother teach her about injustice?

6. What kinds of torture do Siamak and Mohsen describe having suffered in prison?

7. Why is Satrapi disappointed with her father?

8. What naïve view of Satrapi’s do Anoosh and her parents disabuse her of at the beginning of Chapter 9: The Sheep?

9. Describe Satrapi’s point of view on the religious and cultural questions being debated around her at the beginning of Persepolis.

10. Describe Satrapi’s experience of her first protest.

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