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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Satrapi’s mother tell Marjane Anoosh has gone?
(a) To Russia
(b) To America
(c) To visit his mother in another city
(d) To prison

2. How much older than Satrapi is Mehri, the maid?
(a) Eighteen years
(b) Twelve years
(c) Three years
(d) Ten years

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

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

5. Who does Marjane Satrapi say God looks like?
(a) Her grandfather
(b) Marx
(c) Descartes
(d) The Shah

6. How does Satrapi’s father characterize Mohammad Reza Pahlavi?
(a) As a humble reformer
(b) As a popular leader
(c) As a tool of the English
(d) As a popular leader

7. What does Marjane get in trouble for telling her friend about her father, who is in prison?
(a) That he is probably dead
(b) That he is probably in America
(c) That he will never come home
(d) That he has probably been eaten

8. What does Satrapi’s mother say about torturers?
(a) They they should repent
(b) That they should be forgiven
(c) That they should be killed
(d) That they should be exiled

9. Where did Iran get its name?
(a) From Greek historians
(b) From indigenous Aryans
(c) From Indo-European invaders
(d) From local legends

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

11. What cause did the people finally get to celebrate?
(a) Increased liberties
(b) The king's departure
(c) Victory in the war with Iraq
(d) Democratic reforms

12. Where was Anoosh involved in politics?
(a) Isfahan
(b) Teheran
(c) Azerbaijan
(d) Savah

13. What is Marjane Satrapi’s relation to the deposed king?
(a) He was her great-uncle
(b) He was her great-grandfather
(c) He was her grandfather
(d) He was her uncle

14. What do Satrapi and her family condemn in their neighbors?
(a) Drinking
(b) Western habits
(c) Hypocrisy
(d) Islamic fundamentalism

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What Marjane Satrapi’s solution to not knowing anything?

2. When does Satrapi realize that she doesn’t understand anything?

3. Why does Satrapi say that writing Persepolis was important to her?

4. What prediction does Anoosh make to Satrapi?

5. Why does Satrapi love Anoosh right away?

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