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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 many political prisoners were released at the beginning of Chapter 7: The Heroes?
(a) 150
(b) 300
(c) 15,000
(d) 3,000

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

3. Why is Satrapi’s friend leaving Iran?
(a) His parents got him a visa to study in the United States
(b) His parents think it is too dangerous
(c) His parents have been hired by the United States
(d) His parents have found a bride for him in Los Angeles

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

5. What was Siamak’s crime?
(a) Marrying an American
(b) Protesting the government
(c) Writing subversive articles
(d) Witnessing police brutality

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Satrapi’s mother tell Marjane Anoosh has gone?

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

3. What did Iran’s geographical position dispose it toward?

4. When was Iran modernized?

5. What statistic does Marjane offer to Anoosh’s political discussion?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What kind of future does Satrapi expect for herself, at the beginning of Persepolis?

5. What is it that causes Satrapi to realize that she doesn’t know anything, and what is her response to it?

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

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

8. What is the problem with Marxism in Iran, according to Anoosh?

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

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

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