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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. 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

3. When did Western influence in Iran end?
(a) 1885
(b) 1979
(c) 1989
(d) 1885

4. When does Satrapi’s account of Iranian history begin?
(a) 1980
(b) 610 AD
(c) 2000 BC
(d) 800 AD

5. Who does Marjane Satrapi say God looks like?
(a) Descartes
(b) Her grandfather
(c) The Shah
(d) Marx

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Iran’s name from the sixth century B.C. till 1935?

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

3. What does Satrapi want to play with her parents in Chapter 3?

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

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

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