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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. Who created the first Iranian nation?
(a) The Aryans
(b) The Medes
(c) The Persians
(d) The Greeks

2. What had just happened the year before Satrapi’s story begins?
(a) Her birth
(b) The Islamic Revolution
(c) The exile of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
(d) The death of her grandmother

3. What is Satrapi’s reaction to her father’s reaction to the romance between Mehri and the neighbor boy?
(a) She protests it
(b) She sulks in her room
(c) She continues writing letters
(d) She complains to her mother

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

5. What does Satrapi get in trouble for, after the schools reopen?
(a) Not showing up
(b) Forcing other students to remove their veils against their will
(c) Remembering that the teacher said the king was chosen by God
(d) Still wearing her veil

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Satrapi’s father characterize Mohammad Reza Pahlavi?

2. Who does Marjane Satrapi say God looks like?

3. Where did Iran get its name?

4. What was Satrapi’s grandfather’s role in the Iranian government?

5. What prediction does Anoosh make to Satrapi?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the visual style of Persepolis.

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

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

5. Why is Satrapi disappointed with her father?

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

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

8. What is Satrapi’s relationship with Mehri?

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

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

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