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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is Marjane Satrapi’s relation to the deposed king?
(a) He was her great-grandfather
(b) He was her grandfather
(c) He was her uncle
(d) He was her great-uncle
2. What does Marjane Satrapi want to hurt her classmate Ramin for?
(a) His family being rich while others suffered
(b) His personal insults toward her
(c) His Jewishness
(d) Her father's actions under the Shah
3. What did the king test out in the months after Black Friday?
(a) Generals
(b) Foreign policies
(c) Prime ministers
(d) Crowns
4. What was Iran’s name from the sixth century B.C. till 1935?
(a) Syria
(b) Iran
(c) Aryana
(d) Persia
5. Marjane Satrapi’s father tells her the story of Iran. What did the king’s father, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, organize 50 years ago?
(a) A putsch
(b) Reforms
(c) An election
(d) An assassination
Short Answer Questions
1. What do the Guardians of the Revolution threaten Satrapi’s mother with?
2. Where did Iran get its name?
3. What had just happened the year before Satrapi’s story begins?
4. What does Marjane get in trouble for telling her friend about her father, who is in prison?
5. What does Satrapi find herself wishing had happened to her father?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Satrapi’s relationship with God.
2. What kinds of torture do Siamak and Mohsen describe having suffered in prison?
3. What changes did the Shah make in Iran when he was installed in the 1950s?
4. Describe the events that led up the Shah’s fall.
5. What causes the Satrapi family to go on vacation to Europe?
6. What is the problem with Marxism in Iran, according to Anoosh?
7. Describe Satrapi’s point of view on the religious and cultural questions being debated around her at the beginning of Persepolis.
8. What is Satrapi’s father’s role in the developing political conflict?
9. Why is Satrapi disappointed with her father?
10. What is Satrapi’s relationship with the Iranian cultural revolution?
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