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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 resource changed Iran’s economy?
(a) Minerals
(b) Spices
(c) Dyes
(d) Oil

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 Iran has gotten a bad name form its extremist leaders
(c) Because she wants to tell the story of those who died for her country
(d) Because she wants to explain why Iran is the way that it is

3. To whom does Marjane Satrapi compare her favorite writer, Ashraf Darvishian?
(a) Herman Melville
(b) Charles Dickens
(c) Jane Austen
(d) Walt Whitman

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

5. What does Satrapi want to play with her parents in Chapter 3?
(a) Music
(b) Monopoly
(c) Cards
(d) Chess

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Iran get its name?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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