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

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

3. In what way does Marjane Satrapi emulate her grandfather?
(a) She goes among the people to hear what they think
(b) She eats the same diet he was given while in prison
(c) She stays in the bath until her skin is as wrinkled as his
(d) She reads the same books that inspired him

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

5. What cause did the people finally get to celebrate?
(a) Increased liberties
(b) Victory in the war with Iraq
(c) The king's departure
(d) Democratic reforms

Short Answer Questions

1. What prediction does Satrapi’s mother make about Ramin?

2. What changed for Marjane Satrapi in the year when her story begins?

3. When was Iran modernized?

4. What Marjane Satrapi’s solution to not knowing anything?

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

(see the answer key)

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