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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-grandfather
(b) He was her grandfather
(c) He was her great-uncle
(d) He was her uncle

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

3. What did the king test out in the months after Black Friday?
(a) Foreign policies
(b) Generals
(c) Crowns
(d) Prime ministers

4. Why was Satrapi’s father nearly arrested?
(a) For listening to Western music
(b) For speeding
(c) For protesting
(d) For taking photographs

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Marjane Satrapi’s father tells her the story of Iran. What did the king’s father, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, organize 50 years ago?

2. When does Satrapi realize that she doesn’t understand anything?

3. What assurance does Satrapi’s mother give her after she is upset about torturers?

4. Who is the source of Marjane Satrapi’s sentiments about the king?

5. How is Mohsen killed?

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