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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Satrapi’s friends take her during school?
(a) Kansas restaurant
(b) A black market
(c) A Western hotel
(d) A dance club

2. How does Satrapi’s mother react to the trouble she gets into at school?
(a) She warns her about how Islamic men rape women
(b) She threatens to keep her home from school
(c) She threatens to marry her off to an Islamic man
(d) She threatens to punish her

3. When did Satrapi’s mother meet her husband?
(a) At 20
(b) At 14
(c) At 16
(d) At 12

4. Why does Satrapi have a hard time in school?
(a) She cannot focus, and serves as a big distraction to the class
(b) She cannot accept the Islamic ideology when it is contra-factual
(c) She cannot do the work, so she undermines the teachers
(d) She cannot restrain herself from acting out to get attention

5. Why do they choose that country?
(a) She lived there as a child
(b) She could get a visa
(c) She has always loved Austrian culture
(d) Her father's brother lives there

6. What American musician did Satrapi’s parents bring back a pin of?
(a) Johnny Cash
(b) Elvis Presley
(c) Michael Jackson
(d) Howling Wolf

7. How did Satrapi’s father get rid of the Guardians of the Revolution?
(a) He threatens them
(b) He appeals to nationalism
(c) He bribes them
(d) He let them search the house

8. What does Satrapi say Iranians are Olympic athletes in?
(a) Exaggeration
(b) Fact-checking
(c) Science
(d) Gossip

9. Why does Satrapi’s mother put up dark curtains?
(a) To hide their card games from the neighbors
(b) To hide their refugees from the Iranian Guardians
(c) To hide their wine distillery
(d) To make their house look more holy and respectful

10. Why is Satrapi’s class suspended?
(a) They mock the anniversary of the revolution
(b) They all fail a test on Islamic law
(c) They beat up one of the liberal students
(d) They were playing Western games and Western sports

11. How do Satrapi’s parents bring back rock and roll posters?
(a) They rolled them into their suitcases
(b) They sew them into their jacket linings
(c) They cut them into small pieces
(d) They sewed them into stuffed animals

12. How does Satrapi’s father react to the trouble she gets into at school?
(a) He is ashamed of her
(b) He is afraid for her
(c) He is proud of her
(d) He is grateful to her

13. What is the result of the confrontation involving Satrapi and her teacher over Satrapi’s bracelet?
(a) She has to be expelled
(b) She has to be arrested
(c) She has her parents pay the schools to keep her
(d) She has to work for six weeks to atone

14. How did Satrapi’s mother find out that she cut class?
(a) One of Satrapi's friends betrays her
(b) A friend's mother called
(c) The school called
(d) Satrapi herself

15. Where does Satrapi’s father imply that Marjane gets her stubbornness from?
(a) Her school
(b) Her mother
(c) Her grandmother
(d) Him

Short Answer Questions

1. What lesson does Satrapi say she learned about confrontation?

2. Who is in charge of issuing Satrapi’s uncle Taher a pass to get medical care abroad?

3. How does Satrapi learn that her friend has been killed?

4. What does Satrapi tell Pardisse after they give their reports?

5. What does Satrapi see when she looks for her parents over her shoulder?

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