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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Dead Flame, pages 101 to 115.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has become of a poet friend of Azari's?
(a) The poet has become an important revolutionary voice.
(b) The poet has become jailed for writing anti-Shah poems.
(c) The poet writes poems that always praise the Shah.
(d) The poet has given up poetry altogether due to censorship.

2. What kind of hallucination does Azari suffer after his beating?
(a) He becomes convinced he is being pursued by the Savak.
(b) He becomes convinced he sees a tank roll down the street crushing people.
(c) He believes his brother has become a member of the Savak.
(d) He sees the Shah appear before him, comforting him.

3. Where does Kapuscinski trace modern terrorism to?
(a) American capitalist meddling.
(b) Britain's decision to depose Shah Reza Khan.
(c) Saudi Arabian Sunni Muslims.
(d) Iranian Shiism.

4. Why are revolutions rare, according to Kapuscinski?
(a) Dictators have become very good at stopping them before they start.
(b) It takes a great deal of death to move humanity to action.
(c) Humans avoid that which is uncomfortable.
(d) Revolutions are actually common, but the media fails to report on them.

5. In "Cards, Faces, Fields of Flowers," what is Khomeini asking of the Iranian people in a televised speech?
(a) To reject foreign influence.
(b) To murder Shiite muslims.
(c) To reject the currency of the Shah.
(d) To embrace foreign influence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which country backed Shah Pahlavi when he wrested control away from Doctor Mossadegh?

2. What is the capital of Iran?

3. What is Kapuscinski's job?

4. In which year was Reza Khan declared Shah by the parliament?

5. What are the two kinds of revolutions?

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