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

3. What is Satrapi’s father’s reaction when he hears about Mehri’s romance with the neighbor boy?
(a) He fires the maid
(b) He encourages it
(c) He ends it
(d) He forbids it

4. What was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s goal?
(a) Republican reforms
(b) An open market
(c) Religious freedom
(d) An Islamist state

5. 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 had supported the king
(c) Because her husband died of cancer
(d) Because she was not even Iranian

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

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

8. Why does Satrapi say that writing Persepolis was important to her?
(a) Because Iran has gotten a bad name form its extremist leaders
(b) Because she wants to explain why Iran is the way that it is
(c) Because Iran is no longer the country she knew as a child
(d) Because she wants to tell the story of those who died for her country

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

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

11. What did Mohammad Reza Pahlavi have to give up, in order to lead Iran?
(a) Control of the parliament to the opposition parties
(b) Nothing
(c) Iranian oil
(d) Borderlands

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

13. What does Satrapi’s mother threaten to do to her, if she beats up Ramin?
(a) Nail her ears to the wall
(b) Make her clean the house
(c) Send her to rot in prison
(d) Cast her out of the family

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

15. What had just happened the year before Satrapi’s story begins?
(a) The death of her grandmother
(b) The Islamic Revolution
(c) Her birth
(d) The exile of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi