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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Satrapi’s account of her life begin?
(a) At age 6
(b) At birth
(c) At age 10
(d) At age 14

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

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

4. When does Satrapi realize that she doesn’t understand anything?
(a) When her parents describe trying to live on a budget
(b) When her grandmother tells her stories about her own childhood
(c) When her parents laugh about a story about cancer and death
(d) When her parents describe the political situation in Iran

5. What were Marjane Satrapi’s parents protesting?
(a) Government attacks on freedom
(b) Layoffs at the university
(c) Pay cuts for civil servants
(d) The Westernization of Iran

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What had just happened the year before Satrapi’s story begins?

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

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

5. When does Satrapi’s account of Iranian history begin?

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