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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were Marjane Satrapi’s parents protesting?
(a) Pay cuts for civil servants
(b) The Westernization of Iran
(c) Government attacks on freedom
(d) Layoffs at the university

2. What are Marjane Satrapi’s sentiments about the King?
(a) She says she likes him because he looks kind
(b) She says he was chosen by God
(c) She says he is an imposter
(d) She says she wants him exiled

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

4. To whom does Marjane Satrapi compare her favorite writer, Ashraf Darvishian?
(a) Charles Dickens
(b) Herman Melville
(c) Jane Austen
(d) Walt Whitman

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What service did Satrapi perform for Mehri?

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

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

4. How does Satrapi’s father characterize Mohammad Reza Pahlavi?

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

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