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

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

3. What advice does Satrapi give at the end of her introduction?
(a) Forget any wrongs if righting them will kill you
(b) Never forgive atrocities
(c) Never forget your people
(d) Forgive but never forget

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

5. What did Iran’s geographical position dispose it toward?
(a) Agriculture
(b) Wealth
(c) Invasion
(d) Isolation

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Satrapi’s grandmother say the Shah’s father spent the country’s money?

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

4. How does Satrapi’s grandmother say she survived in her poverty?

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

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