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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 had just happened the year before Satrapi’s story begins?
(a) The exile of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
(b) The death of her grandmother
(c) Her birth
(d) The Islamic Revolution

2. What are Marjane Satrapi’s sentiments about the King?
(a) She says she likes him because he looks kind
(b) She says he was chosen by God
(c) She says she wants him exiled
(d) She says he is an imposter

3. How does Satrapi’s grandmother say she survived in her poverty?
(a) She remarried to a rich man
(b) She got a job in a factory
(c) She took in sewing
(d) She left the country

4. Where did Anoosh say he suffered most?
(a) In his marriage
(b) In prison
(c) In his exile
(d) In his freedom

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Satrapi’s grandmother say the Shah’s father spent the country’s money?

4. Why does Satrapi say that writing Persepolis was important to her?

5. What does Satrapi find herself wishing had happened to her father?

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