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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Satrapi find herself wishing had happened to her father?
(a) That he had killed the torturers
(b) That he had moved his family to America
(c) That he had been imprisoned
(d) That he had led the country to freedom

2. To whom does Marjane Satrapi compare her favorite writer, Ashraf Darvishian?
(a) Jane Austen
(b) Herman Melville
(c) Charles Dickens
(d) Walt Whitman

3. What percentage of the Iranian pilots did not return from the attack on Iraq?
(a) 75&
(b) All of them
(c) A quarter
(d) Half

4. What household item does Mohsen say was used for torturing his friend Ahmadi?
(a) Knives
(b) A sponge
(c) A stove
(d) An iron

5. What was Siamak’s crime?
(a) Protesting the government
(b) Witnessing police brutality
(c) Writing subversive articles
(d) Marrying an American

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Mohsen’s crime?

2. How did Satrapi describe the war in her report for school?

3. Why was Satrapi’s father nearly arrested?

4. What do Marjane Satrapi’s neighbors demonstrate after the celebration?

5. Whose thinking informs Anoosh’s thought in Chapter 9?

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