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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What changed for Marjane Satrapi in the year when her story begins?
(a) Her family left Iran
(b) Her father lost his job
(c) She started a new school
(d) She had to wear a veil at school

2. Where do Satrapi and her father find Satrapi’s mother after the bombing?
(a) In a park
(b) In a store
(c) In the library
(d) In the shower

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 an important culling
(d) As a purification

4. Marjane Satrapi’s father tells her the story of Iran. What did the king’s father, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, organize 50 years ago?
(a) An assassination
(b) Reforms
(c) An election
(d) A putsch

5. How did Satrapi’s father get rid of the Guardians of the Revolution?
(a) He let them search the house
(b) He appeals to nationalism
(c) He threatens them
(d) He bribes them

Short Answer Questions

1. How much older than Satrapi is Mehri, the maid?

2. What was Mohsen’s crime?

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

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

5. What does the attack in Chapter 11 make Satrapi want to do?

(see the answer key)

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