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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 does Satrapi get in trouble for, after the schools reopen?
(a) Forcing other students to remove their veils against their will
(b) Not showing up
(c) Remembering that the teacher said the king was chosen by God
(d) Still wearing her veil

2. 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

3. What did Satrapi say she wanted to be, when she grew up?
(a) A grandmother
(b) A prophet
(c) A mother
(d) An astronaut

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Marjane Satrapi want to hurt her classmate Ramin for?

3. When does Satrapi’s account of her life begin?

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

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

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