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

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 goes back to playing with her friends
(c) She reads everything she can
(d) She asks her friends for explanations

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

4. When was Fereydoon’s son conceived?
(a) The day that Fereydoon proclaimed independence
(b) The day he is arrested
(c) The morning of his escape
(d) The night before his execution

5. When does Satrapi’s account of her life begin?
(a) At age 14
(b) At birth
(c) At age 6
(d) At age 10

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Satrapi say she gave up after talking about torture with her mother?

3. When does Satrapi’s account of Iranian history begin?

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

5. What is Satrapi’s reaction to her father’s reaction to the romance between Mehri and the neighbor boy?

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