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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened a year after Satrapi’s uncle Taher died?
(a) The war with Iraq ends
(b) The borders reopen
(c) Iraq declares a second war against them
(d) Satrapi graduates from high school

2. How does Satrapi learn that her friend has been killed?
(a) She sees her carried away on a stretcher
(b) She hears from another friend
(c) She sees her bracelet in the rubble
(d) She find her dead body

3. How did Satrapi’s feelings about the rituals change over time?
(a) She ceases to take them seriously
(b) She ends up being the only one who takes them seriously
(c) She saw the deeper meaning in them
(d) She begins to abstain in protest

4. What did Satrapi say made it hard to look at her uncle Taher?
(a) Sadness
(b) Injuries
(c) Scars from torture
(d) Anger

5. To whom does Marjane Satrapi compare her favorite writer, Ashraf Darvishian?
(a) Walt Whitman
(b) Charles Dickens
(c) Jane Austen
(d) Herman Melville

Short Answer Questions

1. How many political prisoners were released at the beginning of Chapter 7: The Heroes?

2. What was Iran’s name from the sixth century B.C. till 1935?

3. Who stops Satrapi on the street?

4. Where had Satrapi’s father spent the day, when he returns at night?

5. What state is Iran in when Satrapi and her family return from vacation?

(see the answer key)

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