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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 state is Iran in when Satrapi and her family return from vacation?
(a) Civil war
(b) In a state of war with England
(c) In a state of war with Iraq
(d) In a state of war with the United States

2. What does Marjane Satrapi understand as a result of her reading?
(a) Her parents had wanted to flee the country
(b) Her parents had protested to preserve the old aristocracy
(c) She was ashamed to ride in her father's Cadillac
(d) She wanted to be a prophet

3. What advice does Satrapi give at the end of her introduction?
(a) Forgive but never forget
(b) Never forgive atrocities
(c) Never forget your people
(d) Forget any wrongs if righting them will kill you

4. What does Satrapi find herself wishing had happened to her father?
(a) That he had moved his family to America
(b) That he had been imprisoned
(c) That he had killed the torturers
(d) That he had led the country to freedom

5. What does Satrapi want to play with her parents in Chapter 3?
(a) Chess
(b) Music
(c) Monopoly
(d) Cards

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Satrapi and her family oppose the Islamic Revolution?

2. What does Satrapi’s mother say about torturers?

3. What does Marjane Satrapi want to hurt her classmate Ramin for?

4. When was Iran modernized?

5. What Marjane Satrapi’s solution to not knowing anything?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Satrapi’s idea of the Iranian revolution different from her father’s?

2. What is Satrapi’s father’s role in the developing political conflict?

3. What are Satrapi and her family’s feelings about leaving Iran, and what decision do they make?

4. What did Satrapi learn from Ashraf Darvishian?

5. What naïve view of Satrapi’s do Anoosh and her parents disabuse her of at the beginning of Chapter 9: The Sheep?

6. Describe Satrapi’s experience of her first protest.

7. What is Anoosh’s role in Iran’s history?

8. Describe Satrapi’s point of view on the religious and cultural questions being debated around her at the beginning of Persepolis.

9. Why does Satrapi say she wanted to write Persepolis?

10. Describe the events that led up the Shah’s fall.

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