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

2. What did Satrapi say Islam is against?
(a) Driving
(b) Reading
(c) Marriage
(d) Shaving

3. What does Marjane Satrapi want to hurt her classmate Ramin for?
(a) His family being rich while others suffered
(b) His personal insults toward her
(c) Her father's actions under the Shah
(d) His Jewishness

4. How long did it take before Marjane Satrapi found out what happened to Pardisse’s father?
(a) A few hours
(b) Two weeks
(c) A day
(d) A week

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why will retributive bombing be difficult for Iran?

2. What complaint does Satrapi’s father make about Iraqis in Chapter 11?

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

4. What is Satrapi’s reaction to her father’s reaction to the romance between Mehri and the neighbor boy?

5. Where was Anoosh involved in politics?

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