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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Satrapi and her family condemn in their neighbors?
(a) Islamic fundamentalism
(b) Hypocrisy
(c) Drinking
(d) Western habits

3. How does Satrapi’s father explain the persecution of individuals in Iran?
(a) As a transitional stage
(b) As a necessary purge
(c) As a purification
(d) As an important culling

4. Whose thinking informs Anoosh’s thought in Chapter 9?
(a) Nietzsche
(b) Lenin
(c) Freud
(d) Darwin

5. What does Satrapi find herself wishing had happened to her father?
(a) That he had been imprisoned
(b) That he had led the country to freedom
(c) That he had moved his family to America
(d) That he had killed the torturers

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the king test out in the months after Black Friday?

2. Why was Satrapi’s father nearly arrested?

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

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

5. How old was Satrapi’s maid when she came to live with the family?

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