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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was Mohsen called in prison?
(a) The man who endures everything
(b) The man who will not talk
(c) The man with seven lives
(d) The man with eyes in the back of his head

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

5. Who created the first Iranian nation?
(a) The Persians
(b) The Aryans
(c) The Greeks
(d) The Medes

6. 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) An election
(c) Reforms
(d) A putsch

7. What was Siamak’s crime?
(a) Writing subversive articles
(b) Marrying an American
(c) Witnessing police brutality
(d) Protesting the government

8. How do the Guardians of the Revolution intimidate Siamak?
(a) They have him fired from his job
(b) They leave a dead dog on his doorstep
(c) They beat him
(d) They kill his sister

9. When does Satrapi realize that she doesn’t understand anything?
(a) When her parents describe the political situation in Iran
(b) When her parents laugh about a story about cancer and death
(c) When her parents describe trying to live on a budget
(d) When her grandmother tells her stories about her own childhood

10. What does Marjane Satrapi want to hurt her classmate Ramin for?
(a) His Jewishness
(b) Her father's actions under the Shah
(c) His personal insults toward her
(d) His family being rich while others suffered

11. What resource changed Iran’s economy?
(a) Dyes
(b) Oil
(c) Spices
(d) Minerals

12. Why is it ironic that the widow joined the protest that gathered around her husband’s body?
(a) Because he had been in the army himself
(b) Because her husband died of cancer
(c) Because her husband had supported the king
(d) Because she was not even Iranian

13. How do Satrapi’s friends react to her made-up stories about her parents?
(a) They say that she is lying
(b) They say that they feel bad for her
(c) They say she must be proud of them
(d) They say she must be ashamed of them

14. What are Marjane Satrapi’s sentiments about the King?
(a) She says he was chosen by God
(b) She says she wants him exiled
(c) She says she likes him because he looks kind
(d) She says he is an imposter

15. Why is Satrapi’s mother upset with her and Mehri?
(a) For putting themselves in danger
(b) For not telling her where they were going
(c) For lying to her
(d) For stealing from her

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Satrapi say she wanted to be, when she grew up?

2. What does Satrapi get in trouble for, after the schools reopen?

3. What had just happened the year before Satrapi’s story begins?

4. How is Mohsen killed?

5. What do Satrapi and her family condemn in their neighbors?

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