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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who created the first Iranian nation?
(a) The Aryans
(b) The Greeks
(c) The Persians
(d) The Medes

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

3. What was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s goal?
(a) An open market
(b) Religious freedom
(c) Republican reforms
(d) An Islamist state

4. Why is it ironic that the widow joined the protest that gathered around her husband’s body?
(a) Because her husband died of cancer
(b) Because she was not even Iranian
(c) Because he had been in the army himself
(d) Because her husband had supported the king

5. What did Satrapi say Islam is against?
(a) Reading
(b) Marriage
(c) Driving
(d) Shaving

Short Answer Questions

1. What began to happen regularly after Black Friday?

2. Where does Satrapi’s mother tell Marjane Anoosh has gone?

3. How does Satrapi’s father characterize Mohammad Reza Pahlavi?

4. When was Iran modernized?

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

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