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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 Marjane Satrapi’s solution to not knowing anything?
(a) She has bad dreams even though she tries not to think about it
(b) She reads everything she can
(c) She goes back to playing with her friends
(d) She asks her friends for explanations

2. Where had Satrapi’s father spent the day, when he returns at night?
(a) In prison
(b) At the hospital
(c) At the army's headquarters
(d) In the streets

3. Marjane Satrapi’s father tells her the story of Iran. What did the king’s father, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, organize 50 years ago?
(a) An election
(b) Reforms
(c) An assassination
(d) A putsch

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

5. What did Mohammad Reza Pahlavi have to give up, in order to lead Iran?
(a) Control of the parliament to the opposition parties
(b) Iranian oil
(c) Nothing
(d) Borderlands

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the king test out in the months after Black Friday?

2. How much older than Satrapi is Mehri, the maid?

3. What had just happened the year before Satrapi’s story begins?

4. What is Ramin’s response when Marjane tries to forgive him?

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

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