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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Satrapi love Anoosh right away?
(a) Because he suffered under the previous regime
(b) Because he helped to bring about regime change
(c) Because he is well-traveled and well-cultured
(d) Because he has studied dialectic materialism

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

3. How do Satrapi and her friends leave the school?
(a) Walk through the front gate
(b) Hide in a truck
(c) Climb the wall
(d) Slip through the fence

4. Why was the punishment Satrapi’s neighbor paid for having Western music in his house?
(a) $500
(b) 75 lashes
(c) Loss of his house
(d) 3 months in prison

5. What did the king test out in the months after Black Friday?
(a) Foreign policies
(b) Prime ministers
(c) Crowns
(d) Generals

Short Answer Questions

1. What advice does Satrapi’s mother give her?

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

3. To whom does Marjane Satrapi compare her favorite writer, Ashraf Darvishian?

4. Why is Satrapi’s mother upset with her and Mehri?

5. What does Satrapi’s father tell the teacher?

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