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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) A Western hotel
(b) A black market
(c) A dance club
(d) Kansas restaurant

2. What does Satrapi think about her father when he expresses doubts about the Iranian military?
(a) That he is not strong in the family, either
(b) That he is a fool
(c) That he is wise and realistic
(d) That he is a patriot

3. How does Satrapi characterize herself at age 14?
(a) An invisible kid
(b) A rebel
(c) A pleaser
(d) A bookworm

4. How does Satrapi say the regime changed throughout the war?
(a) They become less competent
(b) They become less solvent
(c) They become more repressive
(d) They become more tolerant

5. Who does Satrapi find hanging out at the place her friends take her to?
(a) Guardians of the Revolution
(b) Teenagers
(c) Old women
(d) No one

6. Why does Satrapi say that her parents wanted to stay in Tehran?
(a) They are afraid of starting over somewhere else
(b) All their ties in life are to Tehran
(c) So she can receive an education
(d) They own too much property to let it go

7. How much does the family receive for the dowry of the murdered girl Satrapi’s mother tells her about?
(a) $5,000
(b) $500
(c) $50
(d) $5

8. How does Satrapi characterize her mother, in relation to other Iranian mothers?
(a) Very permissive
(b) Exceedingly strict
(c) Horribly strained
(d) A total pushover

9. What does Satrapi see when she looks for her parents over her shoulder?
(a) Her father being harassed by Guardians of the Revolution
(b) Her grandmother fainting
(c) Her father carrying her mother
(d) Her parents being arrested

10. What other rituals does Satrapi describe?
(a) Suicides
(b) Flagellations
(c) Sacrificial offerings
(d) Ritual murders

11. What complaint does Satrapi’s father make about Iraqis in Chapter 11?
(a) They drive like maniacs
(b) They will be worse than the Islamists
(c) They will enslave Iranians
(d) Theywill destroy Iranian cultural icons

12. How do Satrapi and her friends leave the school?
(a) Walk through the front gate
(b) Climb the wall
(c) Hide in a truck
(d) Slip through the fence

13. What does Satrapi accuse her teacher of?
(a) Drinking
(b) Abusing the students
(c) Plagiarizing
(d) Lying

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

15. What does Satrapi tell Pardisse after they give their reports?
(a) That she should be proud
(b) That she can think of other people who should have died
(c) That her father is a hero
(d) That her father is someplace better

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Satrapi say made it hard to look at her uncle Taher?

2. Where do Satrapi’s parents send her?

3. What did Satrapi’s mother make for her when she went to her first party?

4. Where do the Satrapis get their news?

5. What advantage does Satrapi say Iran had in its war with Iraq?

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