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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 closed in Iran in 1980?
(a) Bilingual schools
(b) Iranian borders
(c) Iran's museums
(d) Universities

2. What household item does Mohsen say was used for torturing his friend Ahmadi?
(a) A sponge
(b) Knives
(c) An iron
(d) A stove

3. Who is the source of Marjane Satrapi’s sentiments about the king?
(a) Her friends
(b) Her teacher
(c) Television broadcasts
(d) Her parents

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

5. What does Satrapi want to play with her parents in Chapter 3?
(a) Cards
(b) Music
(c) Chess
(d) Monopoly

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Satrapi’s mother dye her hair?

2. What does Marjane Satrapi understand as a result of her reading?

3. What is the swan made of, that Anoosh gives Marjane?

4. What changed for Marjane Satrapi in the year when her story begins?

5. Whose thinking informs Anoosh’s thought in Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the visual style of Persepolis.

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

3. What is Satrapi’s family’s connection to the revolution?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Describe the events that led up the Shah’s fall.

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

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