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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 is Satrapi’s father’s reaction when he hears about Mehri’s romance with the neighbor boy?
(a) He encourages it
(b) He fires the maid
(c) He ends it
(d) He forbids it

2. What is Ramin’s response when Marjane tries to forgive him?
(a) He is indifferent and unsympathetic
(b) He is indignant and self-righteous
(c) He is confused and uncomfortable
(d) He is ashamed and conciliatory

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

4. What does Marjane Satrapi understand as a result of her reading?
(a) Her parents had protested to preserve the old aristocracy
(b) Her parents had wanted to flee the country
(c) She wanted to be a prophet
(d) She was ashamed to ride in her father's Cadillac

5. Why does Satrapi say that writing Persepolis was important to her?
(a) Because Iran is no longer the country she knew as a child
(b) Because Iran has gotten a bad name form its extremist leaders
(c) Because she wants to explain why Iran is the way that it is
(d) Because she wants to tell the story of those who died for her country

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Satrapi realize that she doesn’t understand anything?

2. Why is Satrapi’s mother upset with her and Mehri?

3. What did Mohammad Reza Pahlavi have to give up, in order to lead Iran?

4. Who does Marjane Satrapi say God looks like?

5. In what way does Marjane Satrapi emulate her grandfather?

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