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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 prediction does Satrapi’s mother make about Ramin?
(a) That he will be tortured in his own way
(b) That he will repent one day
(c) That he will be punished
(d) That he will never learn

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

3. 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) Borderlands
(d) Nothing

4. 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

5. Who created the first Iranian nation?
(a) The Medes
(b) The Persians
(c) The Aryans
(d) The Greeks

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Iran’s geographical position dispose it toward?

2. To whom does Marjane Satrapi compare her favorite writer, Ashraf Darvishian?

3. What cause did the people finally get to celebrate?

4. What did Satrapi say she wanted to be, when she grew up?

5. What is Marjane Satrapi’s relation to the deposed king?

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