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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Satrapi make Anoosh’s story make sense?
(a) She focuses only on the things he was given to eat.
(b) She tells herself it is just like books she has read.
(c) She compares his trials to her friend’s father’s trials.-
(d) She forbids anyone to suffer like he did, when she is in charge.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Fereydoon’s son conceived?

2. How much older than Satrapi is Mehri, the maid?

3. How many political prisoners were released at the beginning of Chapter 7: The Heroes?

4. How do Satrapi’s friends react to her made-up stories about her parents?

5. What resource changed Iran’s economy?

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