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

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

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

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

5. 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) Forgive but never forget
(d) Never forget your people

Short Answer Questions

1. Who created the first Iranian nation?

2. What resource changed Iran’s economy?

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

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

5. Marjane Satrapi’s father tells her the story of Iran. What did the king’s father, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, organize 50 years ago?

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