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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 do Marjane Satrapi’s neighbors demonstrate after the celebration?
(a) Courage
(b) Pettiness
(c) Shallowness
(d) Patriotism

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

3. What began to happen regularly after Black Friday?
(a) Coups
(b) Massacres
(c) Protests
(d) Elections

4. What does Satrapi’s mother threaten to do to her, if she beats up Ramin?
(a) Cast her out of the family
(b) Nail her ears to the wall
(c) Send her to rot in prison
(d) Make her clean the house

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the king test out in the months after Black Friday?

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

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

4. What does Satrapi get in trouble for, after the schools reopen?

5. Who created the first Iranian nation?

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