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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why didn’t Khosro make a passport for Satrapi’s uncle Taher?
(a) He is arrested
(b) He is killed
(c) He is a crook
(d) He flees the country

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

3. 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 parents being arrested
(d) Her father carrying her mother

4. Why does Satrapi say the government has not already closed the place her friends take her to?
(a) They did not know about it
(b) They ran it themselves
(c) They tolerated it
(d) They owners paid them protection money

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

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

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

8. 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 were playing Western games and Western sports
(d) They beat up one of the liberal students

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

10. What does Satrapi compare the war to?
(a) A war from 1400 years ago
(b) The Soviet-Afghan War
(c) The Vietnam War
(d) Her dog having died when she was small

11. How did Satrapi describe the war in her report for school?
(a) As a regional catastrophe
(b) As a personal event
(c) As a nonincident
(d) As an historical event

12. What does the attack in Chapter 11 make Satrapi want to do?
(a) Fight the Iraqis
(b) Write a book
(c) Go to Europe
(d) Beat up the military

13. What promise does Satrapi make to her reflection in the mirror?
(a) To be true to herself
(b) Not to let herself be sent away
(c) To always be Iranian
(d) To get her parents out as well

14. Why was the punishment Satrapi’s neighbor paid for having Western music in his house?
(a) $500
(b) 3 months in prison
(c) 75 lashes
(d) Loss of his house

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Satrapi think about her father when he expresses doubts about the Iranian military?

2. How do Satrapi’s parents bring back rock and roll posters?

3. How does Satrapi’s mother react to the trouble she gets into at school?

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

5. What rare music does Satrapi hear on the TV after the Iraqi bombing?

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