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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Satrapi find herself wishing had happened to her father?
(a) That he had moved his family to America
(b) That he had led the country to freedom
(c) That he had been imprisoned
(d) That he had killed the torturers

2. How do Satrapi and her family oppose the Islamic Revolution?
(a) They go to forbidden events
(b) They support opposition figures
(c) They protest for reform
(d) They write letters to the newspapers

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

4. What was Iran’s name from the sixth century B.C. till 1935?
(a) Aryana
(b) Syria
(c) Persia
(d) Iran

5. 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 ashamed of them
(d) They say she must be proud of them

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

7. Where did Anoosh say he suffered most?
(a) In prison
(b) In his exile
(c) In his freedom
(d) In his marriage

8. 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

9. What assurance does Satrapi’s mother give her after she is upset about torturers?
(a) That they will suffer in turn
(b) That forgiveness is important
(c) That there is justice on earth
(d) That there is wisdom in accepting that torture happens in life

10. How did Siamak ultimately flee Iran?
(a) In a flock of sheep
(b) In a truck
(c) In a cargo ship
(d) In a passenger jet

11. How old was Satrapi’s maid when she came to live with the family?
(a) 12
(b) 18
(c) 4
(d) 8

12. What is Satrapi’s mother pressured to do?
(a) Pay bribes to the Guardians of the Revolution
(b) Leave the country
(c) Wear a veil
(d) Have sex with the Guardians of the Revolution

13. What began to happen regularly after Black Friday?
(a) Protests
(b) Elections
(c) Massacres
(d) Coups

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marjane Satrapi understand as a result of her reading?

2. What cause did the people finally get to celebrate?

3. When was Fereydoon’s son conceived?

4. How does Satrapi’s grandmother say she survived in her poverty?

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

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