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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What changed for Marjane Satrapi in the year when her story begins?
(a) She started a new school
(b) She had to wear a veil at school
(c) Her father lost his job
(d) Her family left Iran

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

3. Why does Satrapi say that writing Persepolis was important to her?
(a) Because she wants to explain why Iran is the way that it is
(b) Because Iran is no longer the country she knew as a child
(c) Because she wants to tell the story of those who died for her country
(d) Because Iran has gotten a bad name form its extremist leaders

4. What were Marjane Satrapi’s parents protesting?
(a) The Westernization of Iran
(b) Layoffs at the university
(c) Government attacks on freedom
(d) Pay cuts for civil servants

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who immediately succeeded Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as the leader of Iran?

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

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

5. What was Satrapi’s grandfather’s role in the Iranian government?

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