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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. How does Satrapi’s grandmother say the Shah’s father spent the country’s money?
(a) On educational reforms
(b) On useless celebrations
(c) On a lavish lifestyle
(d) On military research

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

3. When does Satrapi’s account of Iranian history begin?
(a) 610 AD
(b) 1980
(c) 800 AD
(d) 2000 BC

4. What was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s goal?
(a) An Islamist state
(b) An open market
(c) Religious freedom
(d) Republican reforms

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 has probably been eaten
(c) That he will never come home
(d) That he is probably in America

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mohammad Reza Pahlavi have to give up, in order to lead Iran?

2. What does Satrapi say she gave up after talking about torture with her mother?

3. When was Iran modernized?

4. How is Mohsen killed?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What traumatic experience does Satrapi’s mother have?

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

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

8. What changes did the Shah make in Iran when he was installed in the 1950s?

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

10. What lesson does Satrapi’s mother teach her about injustice?

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