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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 Satrapi’s father’s reaction when he hears about Mehri’s romance with the neighbor boy?
(a) He encourages it
(b) He fires the maid
(c) He ends it
(d) He forbids it

2. How does Satrapi’s father explain the persecution of individuals in Iran?
(a) As a necessary purge
(b) As a transitional stage
(c) As a purification
(d) As an important culling

3. What do Satrapi and her family condemn in their neighbors?
(a) Islamic fundamentalism
(b) Drinking
(c) Hypocrisy
(d) Western habits

4. What prediction does Anoosh make to Satrapi?
(a) That one day she will write important books
(b) That one day the regime will fall to reformers
(c) That one day the proletariat will rule
(d) That there will one day be justice for murderers

5. What changed for Marjane Satrapi in the year when her story begins?
(a) Her family left Iran
(b) Her father lost his job
(c) She started a new school
(d) She had to wear a veil at school

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Satrapi say that writing Persepolis was important to her?

3. When does Satrapi realize that she doesn’t understand anything?

4. Where did Iran get its name?

5. What had just happened the year before Satrapi’s story begins?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Satrapi disappointed with her father?

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

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

4. How have conditions changed by the time Satrapi and her family return from vacation?

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

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

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 relationship with the Iranian cultural revolution?

9. Why did Satrapi get in trouble for what she told Siamak’s daughter?

10. Describe Satrapi’s relationship with God.

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