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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 does Satrapi’s mother say about torturers?
(a) That they should be exiled
(b) That they should be killed
(c) That they should be forgiven
(d) They they should repent

2. What does Marjane Satrapi want to hurt her classmate Ramin for?
(a) His personal insults toward her
(b) His family being rich while others suffered
(c) Her father's actions under the Shah
(d) His Jewishness

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

4. What Marjane Satrapi’s solution to not knowing anything?
(a) She asks her friends for explanations
(b) She has bad dreams even though she tries not to think about it
(c) She reads everything she can
(d) She goes back to playing with her friends

5. What does Marjane get in trouble for telling her friend about her father, who is in prison?
(a) That he is probably dead
(b) That he is probably in America
(c) That he will never come home
(d) That he has probably been eaten

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Guardians of the Revolution threaten Satrapi’s mother with?

2. What prediction does Anoosh make to Satrapi?

3. What did Satrapi say Islam is against?

4. Why is Satrapi’s mother upset with her and Mehri?

5. How does Satrapi make Anoosh’s story make sense?

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes the Satrapi family to go on vacation to Europe?

2. Describe Satrapi’s experiments in playing ‘torture.’

3. What trouble does Satrapi’s relationship with Mehri cause?

4. How does Satrapi’s status as a child create humor in Persepolis?

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

6. What are Satrapi’s feelings about her uncle’s stories?

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

8. Why is Satrapi disappointed with her father?

9. What is Satrapi’s relationship with the Iranian cultural revolution?

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

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