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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

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

3. Where does Satrapi tell her teacher she got her bracelet?
(a) Because Satrapi had reported it stolen
(b) Because Satrapi has been flaunting it
(c) Because jewelry is forbidden
(d) Because she envied it

4. What percentage of the Iranian pilots did not return from the attack on Iraq?
(a) All of them
(b) A quarter
(c) Half
(d) 75&

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

6. How long did Satrapi and her family have, once the alarms went off, before the missiles would strike?
(a) 6 minutes
(b) 30 seconds
(c) 15 seconds
(d) 3 minutes

7. 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) Theywill destroy Iranian cultural icons
(d) They will enslave Iranians

8. Why does Satrapi’s mother accuse her husband of being a hypocrite?
(a) For wanting to stay in the West
(b) For claiming to like Iron Maiden
(c) For wanting to travel without her
(d) For saying he knew who Kim Wilde was

9. What does Satrapi do with all of her possessions?
(a) Gives them away to her parents
(b) Gives them away to charity
(c) Gives them away to tourists
(d) Gives them away to her friends

10. Where do Satrapi and her father find Satrapi’s mother after the bombing?
(a) In a store
(b) In the shower
(c) In the library
(d) In a park

11. What rare music does Satrapi hear on the TV after the Iraqi bombing?
(a) Western rock and roll
(b) Western advertisements
(c) Traditional Iranian folk music
(d) The Iranian national anthem

12. How does Satrapi convey her newfound maturity in Chapter 15?
(a) She has been to her first protest
(b) She has her first boyfriend
(c) She has begun to smoke
(d) She has older friends

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

14. What does Pardisse tell Satrapi in response?
(a) She wishes her father was still alive
(b) She wishes that no one would ever die
(c) She wishes that she could have died in his place
(d) She wishes that her mother had died instead

15. 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 punish her
(d) She threatens to marry her off to an Islamic man

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did it take before Marjane Satrapi found out what happened to Pardisse’s father?

2. Where do Satrapi and her family go during bombing raids?

3. Where does Satrapi’s father imply that Marjane gets her stubbornness from?

4. How did Pardisse write her report?

5. Who does Satrapi find hanging out at the place her friends take her to?

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