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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. A newspaper article provides what reason for its assertion that Khomeini is a madman?
(a) Khomeini is a supporter of the Great Civilization.
(b) Khomeini is an enemy of the poor.
(c) Khomeini has been known to talk to an invisible person.
(d) Khomeini is an enemy of the status quo.

2. What do protesters shout in unison in many of the pro-revolution films?
(a) Death to Ali!
(b) Death to Azari!
(c) Death to the Shah!
(d) Death to Khomeini!

3. Azari talks to a publisher who is proud of being able to publish a poem with what word in it?
(a) Oppression.
(b) Free.
(c) Hideous.
(d) Sorrow.

4. What kind of government do conservatives wish to establish in Iran?
(a) Theocracy.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Meritocracy.
(d) Monarchy.

5. Who does Mahmud Azari NOT visit during his return to Iran?
(a) A destroyer of monuments to the Shah.
(b) A mayor.
(c) A botany professor.
(d) His brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the newspapers report about Mahmud Azari's beating?

2. What is the most permanent form of revolution?

3. After massacres, the dead are commemorated in a service after how many days?

4. The Savak conduct a raid on which location, resulting in the arrest of many students?

5. In which year does Mahmud Azari return to Iran after an absence?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens in Qom as a result of an unflattering article in Etelat about Khomeini that spurs the revolution?

2. Describe the paranoid fit that Azari suffers.

3. What extended metaphor does Kapuscinski offer for the relationship between the Shah, the Great Civilization, and the people of Iran?

4. How does the local newspaper respond to the events surrounding Azari's beating?

5. What are the two types of revolution? Define them.

6. Why does Kapuscinski feels that Shah blundered in his response to unrest prior to the revolution?

7. What is the nature of the January 8, 1978 article in Etelat that helped to spur the Iranian revolution?

8. Explain the pre-revolution events involving a) a wild horse, b) a university, and c) a riot in Qom.

9. What organizations rule after the Shah is deposed? How does Kapuscinski characterize this organizations?

10. Explain Azari's association with the Iranian Writers' Association.

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