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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advice does Satrapi give at the end of her introduction?
(a) Never forget your people
(b) Forgive but never forget
(c) Forget any wrongs if righting them will kill you
(d) Never forgive atrocities

2. How does Satrapi’s grandmother say the Shah’s father spent the country’s money?
(a) On a lavish lifestyle
(b) On military research
(c) On useless celebrations
(d) On educational reforms

3. What prediction does Satrapi’s mother make about Ramin?
(a) That he will never learn
(b) That he will repent one day
(c) That he will be punished
(d) That he will be tortured in his own way

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

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

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

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

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

9. When was Fereydoon’s son conceived?
(a) The day that Fereydoon proclaimed independence
(b) The morning of his escape
(c) The night before his execution
(d) The day he is arrested

10. What does Satrapi get in trouble for, after the schools reopen?
(a) Not showing up
(b) Still wearing her veil
(c) Forcing other students to remove their veils against their will
(d) Remembering that the teacher said the king was chosen by God

11. What does Marjane Satrapi understand as a result of her reading?
(a) Her parents had protested to preserve the old aristocracy
(b) Her parents had wanted to flee the country
(c) She was ashamed to ride in her father's Cadillac
(d) She wanted to be a prophet

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

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

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

15. How does Satrapi’s grandmother say she survived in her poverty?
(a) She remarried to a rich man
(b) She left the country
(c) She took in sewing
(d) She got a job in a factory

Short Answer Questions

1. What prediction does Anoosh make to Satrapi?

2. What does Satrapi want to play with her parents in Chapter 3?

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

4. What statistic does Marjane offer to Anoosh’s political discussion?

5. How does Satrapi make Anoosh’s story make sense?

(see the answer keys)

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