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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 is Marjane Satrapi’s relation to the deposed king?
(a) He was her great-uncle
(b) He was her great-grandfather
(c) He was her grandfather
(d) He was her uncle

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

3. What is Satrapi’s father’s reaction when he hears about Mehri’s romance with the neighbor boy?
(a) He fires the maid
(b) He forbids it
(c) He ends it
(d) He encourages it

4. What was Satrapi’s grandfather’s role in the Iranian government?
(a) He was king
(b) He was a local leader
(c) He was a political prisoner
(d) He was prime minister

5. Why is it ironic that the widow joined the protest that gathered around her husband’s body?
(a) Because she was not even Iranian
(b) Because her husband had supported the king
(c) Because her husband died of cancer
(d) Because he had been in the army himself

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Satrapi’s friends react to her made-up stories about her parents?

2. How old was Satrapi’s maid when she came to live with the family?

3. How does Satrapi’s father characterize Mohammad Reza Pahlavi?

4. How long did it take before Marjane Satrapi found out what happened to Pardisse’s father?

5. Where did Anoosh say he suffered most?

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