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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 was Satrapi’s grandfather’s role in the Iranian government?
(a) He was prime minister
(b) He was a local leader
(c) He was a political prisoner
(d) He was king

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

3. In what way does Marjane Satrapi emulate her grandfather?
(a) She goes among the people to hear what they think
(b) She reads the same books that inspired him
(c) She stays in the bath until her skin is as wrinkled as his
(d) She eats the same diet he was given while in prison

4. What did Satrapi say she wanted to be, when she grew up?
(a) An astronaut
(b) A grandmother
(c) A mother
(d) A prophet

5. Marjane Satrapi’s father tells her the story of Iran. What did the king’s father, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, organize 50 years ago?
(a) Reforms
(b) An assassination
(c) A putsch
(d) An election

Short Answer Questions

1. What closed in Iran in 1980?

2. Why did Satrapi’s mother dye her hair?

3. What cause did the people finally get to celebrate?

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

5. What began to happen regularly after Black Friday?

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