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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. Why does Satrapi love Anoosh right away?
(a) Because he suffered under the previous regime
(b) Because he helped to bring about regime change
(c) Because he has studied dialectic materialism
(d) Because he is well-traveled and well-cultured

2. Marjane Satrapi’s father tells her the story of Iran. What did the king’s father, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, organize 50 years ago?
(a) Reforms
(b) A putsch
(c) An assassination
(d) An election

3. What is Satrapi’s mother pressured to do?
(a) Leave the country
(b) Have sex with the Guardians of the Revolution
(c) Wear a veil
(d) Pay bribes to the Guardians of the Revolution

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

5. Why is Satrapi’s mother upset with her and Mehri?
(a) For not telling her where they were going
(b) For stealing from her
(c) For lying to her
(d) For putting themselves in danger

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Mohsen’s crime?

2. What does Marjane get in trouble for telling her friend about her father, who is in prison?

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

4. What does Satrapi’s mother say about torturers?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Satrapi’s relationship with Mehri?

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

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

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

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

9. What kinds of torture do Siamak and Mohsen describe having suffered in prison?

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

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