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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When was Iran modernized?
(a) 18th century
(b) 20th century
(c) 16th century
(d) 19th century

4. What does Satrapi want to play with her parents in Chapter 3?
(a) Cards
(b) Monopoly
(c) Music
(d) Chess

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Satrapi’s mother threaten to do to her, if she beats up Ramin?

2. What advice does Satrapi give at the end of her introduction?

3. What changed for Marjane Satrapi in the year when her story begins?

4. What had just happened the year before Satrapi’s story begins?

5. Who created the first Iranian nation?

(see the answer key)

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