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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 Iranian history begin?
(a) 610 AD
(b) 2000 BC
(c) 800 AD
(d) 1980

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

3. How does Satrapi’s grandmother say she survived in her poverty?
(a) She got a job in a factory
(b) She took in sewing
(c) She remarried to a rich man
(d) She left the country

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

5. Why is it ironic that the widow joined the protest that gathered around her husband’s body?
(a) Because she was not even Iranian
(b) Because her husband died of cancer
(c) Because he had been in the army himself
(d) Because her husband had supported the king

Short Answer Questions

1. What advice does Satrapi give at the end of her introduction?

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

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

4. What were Marjane Satrapi’s parents protesting?

5. Where had Satrapi’s father spent the day, when he returns at night?

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