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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did Iran get its name?
(a) From Indo-European invaders
(b) From local legends
(c) From Greek historians
(d) From indigenous Aryans

3. What Marjane Satrapi’s solution to not knowing anything?
(a) She goes back to playing with her friends
(b) She asks her friends for explanations
(c) She has bad dreams even though she tries not to think about it
(d) She reads everything she can

4. What was Iran’s name from the sixth century B.C. till 1935?
(a) Iran
(b) Persia
(c) Syria
(d) Aryana

5. Why did Satrapi’s mother dye her hair?
(a) Because she had been caught stealing from her job
(b) Because she had been mistaken for a Westerner and did not want to give that impression
(c) Because she wanted to look younger and had too much gray hair
(d) Because she had been photographed at a protest against the government

Short Answer Questions

1. Who immediately succeeded Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as the leader of Iran?

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

3. Why is it ironic that the widow joined the protest that gathered around her husband’s body?

4. What closed in Iran in 1980?

5. What did Satrapi say she wanted to be, when she grew up?

(see the answer key)

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