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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were Marjane Satrapi’s parents protesting?
(a) Layoffs at the university
(b) Pay cuts for civil servants
(c) Government attacks on freedom
(d) The Westernization of Iran

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

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

4. When was Iran modernized?
(a) 16th century
(b) 19th century
(c) 20th century
(d) 18th century

5. What does Satrapi say she gave up after talking about torture with her mother?
(a) Dialectical materialism
(b) Thoughts of revenge
(c) Agnosticism
(d) Childish thinking

6. When does Satrapi’s account of Iranian history begin?
(a) 1980
(b) 2000 BC
(c) 800 AD
(d) 610 AD

7. What is Satrapi’s reaction to her father’s reaction to the romance between Mehri and the neighbor boy?
(a) She protests it
(b) She sulks in her room
(c) She complains to her mother
(d) She continues writing letters

8. Why was Satrapi’s father nearly arrested?
(a) For listening to Western music
(b) For taking photographs
(c) For speeding
(d) For protesting

9. How do Satrapi’s parents justify remaining in Iran?
(a) They do not wish to take lowly work abroad
(b) They think they can still make a difference in Iran
(c) They cannot afford to make the trip
(d) They know that they will be prevented from leaving

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

11. What statistic does Marjane offer to Anoosh’s political discussion?
(a) That 99.99% of Iranians voted for the Islamic Republic
(b) That women are 95% less likely to know how to read
(c) That 78% of oil profits are taken out of Iran by the West
(d) That the war has already killed 4% of the Iranian population

12. What state is Iran in when Satrapi and her family return from vacation?
(a) In a state of war with the United States
(b) In a state of war with England
(c) Civil war
(d) In a state of war with Iraq

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

14. Where is Ashraf Darvishian from?
(a) He is Kurdish
(b) He is an Afghan
(c) He is a Turk
(d) He is an American

15. In what way does Marjane Satrapi emulate her grandfather?
(a) She reads the same books that inspired him
(b) She goes among the people to hear what they think
(c) She stays in the bath until her skin is as wrinkled as his
(d) She eats the same diet he was given while in prison

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is it ironic that the widow joined the protest that gathered around her husband’s body?

2. What did Mohammad Reza Pahlavi have to give up, in order to lead Iran?

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

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

5. Where was Anoosh involved in politics?

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