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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What closed in Iran in 1980?
(a) Universities
(b) Bilingual schools
(c) Iranian borders
(d) Iran's museums

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

3. What did Satrapi say she wanted to be, when she grew up?
(a) An astronaut
(b) A grandmother
(c) A prophet
(d) A mother

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

5. 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 he had been in the army himself
(c) Because she was not even Iranian
(d) Because her husband died of cancer

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

7. What do the Guardians of the Revolution threaten Satrapi’s mother with?
(a) Rape
(b) Arrest
(c) Fines
(d) Beating

8. 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

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

10. Why did Satrapi’s mother dye her hair?
(a) Because she had been mistaken for a Westerner and did not want to give that impression
(b) Because she had been photographed at a protest against the government
(c) Because she wanted to look younger and had too much gray hair
(d) Because she had been caught stealing from her job

11. What is the swan made of, that Anoosh gives Marjane?
(a) An old knife
(b) A pebble
(c) Bread
(d) Paper

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

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

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

15. What did Iran’s geographical position dispose it toward?
(a) Invasion
(b) Agriculture
(c) Isolation
(d) Wealth

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Siamak’s crime?

2. Who is the source of Marjane Satrapi’s sentiments about the king?

3. What did Satrapi say Islam is against?

4. What is Satrapi’s reaction to her father’s reaction to the romance between Mehri and the neighbor boy?

5. How many political prisoners were released at the beginning of Chapter 7: The Heroes?

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