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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Marjane and her grandmother dispose of when they arrive at the house with the Guardians of the Revolution?
(a) Western clothes
(b) Drugs
(c) Music
(d) Alcohol

2. What does Satrapi visit at Gandhi Avenue?
(a) The black market
(b) Her friend's house
(c) A Western restaurant
(d) The music store

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

4. What advantage does Satrapi say Iran had in its war with Iraq?
(a) The number of soldiers
(b) International support
(c) Military technology
(d) Financial strength

5. What does Iraq start to fire at Iranian cities?
(a) Biological weapons
(b) Poison gas
(c) Heavy artillery
(d) Ballistic missiles

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

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

8. To what state does Satrapi’s father’s passport forbid travel?
(a) Russia
(b) Palestine
(c) Italy
(d) America

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

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

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

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

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

14. Where is Satrapi when the Iraq jets bomb Tehran?
(a) Her house
(b) The park
(c) Her father's office
(d) At school

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who intervened to help Satrapi and her family after the bracelet incident?

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

3. What did the teachers tell the parents who came about the suspension?

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

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

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