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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where had Satrapi’s father spent the day, when he returns at night?
(a) At the army's headquarters
(b) In the streets
(c) At the hospital
(d) In prison

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What Marjane Satrapi’s solution to not knowing anything?

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

3. Why is it ironic that the widow joined the protest that gathered around her husband’s body?

4. What did Satrapi say she wanted to be, when she grew up?

5. What is Marjane Satrapi’s relation to the deposed king?

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