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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Satrapi and her family go during bombing raids?
(a) To her grandmother's house
(b) A bomb shelter
(c) The basement
(d) A neighboring town

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

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

4. What do Satrapi’s parents bring back from their travels?
(a) American magazines
(b) French cigarettes
(c) English boots
(d) Denim jacket

5. How does Satrapi represent her feelings when she finds out her friend has been killed?
(a) An all-black panel
(b) Concentric circles
(c) Arrows piercing her heart
(d) A scene of falling

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

7. What advice does Satrapi’s grandmother give her?
(a) To pick her battles
(b) Not to let herself be bullied
(c) To keep her dignity
(d) To speak her mind no matter what

8. How long did it take before Marjane Satrapi found out what happened to Pardisse’s father?
(a) A few hours
(b) Two weeks
(c) A day
(d) A week

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

10. What did Satrapi say made it hard to look at her uncle Taher?
(a) Injuries
(b) Anger
(c) Scars from torture
(d) Sadness

11. How did Pardisse write her report?
(a) As a history of the Persian Wars
(b) As a letter to her father
(c) As a curse on Iraqis
(d) As a promise to the nation

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Iraq start to fire at Iranian cities?

2. What percentage of the Iranian pilots did not return from the attack on Iraq?

3. How does Satrapi describe her teacher’s response to her report?

4. How does Satrapi say the regime changed throughout the war?

5. What happened a year after Satrapi’s uncle Taher died?

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