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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Satrapi’s father characterize Mohammad Reza Pahlavi?
(a) As a humble reformer
(b) As a tool of the English
(c) As a popular leader
(d) As a popular leader

2. When does Satrapi’s account of Iranian history begin?
(a) 2000 BC
(b) 1980
(c) 610 AD
(d) 800 AD

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

5. What changed for Marjane Satrapi in the year when her story begins?
(a) Her father lost his job
(b) She started a new school
(c) She had to wear a veil at school
(d) Her family left Iran

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What resource changed Iran’s economy?

3. Why does Satrapi say that writing Persepolis was important to her?

4. What are Marjane Satrapi’s sentiments about the King?

5. What were Marjane Satrapi’s parents protesting?

(see the answer key)

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