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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 say that her parents wanted to stay in Tehran?
(a) All their ties in life are to Tehran
(b) So she can receive an education
(c) They are afraid of starting over somewhere else
(d) They own too much property to let it go

2. How did Satrapi’s mother find out that she cut class?
(a) One of Satrapi's friends betrays her
(b) Satrapi herself
(c) The school called
(d) A friend's mother called

3. What did the teachers tell the parents who came about the suspension?
(a) That the students had to obey or be expelled
(b) That they could run for school board themselves, if they wanted a change
(c) That they could bring up their concerns at the next meeting
(d) They any further dissent would result in arrest

4. What does Satrapi do with all of her possessions?
(a) Gives them away to charity
(b) Gives them away to tourists
(c) Gives them away to her friends
(d) Gives them away to her parents

5. What happened a year after Satrapi’s uncle Taher died?
(a) The borders reopen
(b) Iraq declares a second war against them
(c) The war with Iraq ends
(d) Satrapi graduates from high school

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Satrapi say her mother looks in her passport photo?

2. What rare music does Satrapi hear on the TV after the Iraqi bombing?

3. What does Satrapi see when she looks for her parents over her shoulder?

4. What did Satrapi say made it hard to look at her uncle Taher?

5. What do Satrapi’s parents bring back from their travels?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn’t the war end when Iraq makes a peace proposal?

2. What factors contribute to Satrapi’s uncle Taher’s heart condition?

3. What kind of atmosphere exists in the markets, as Chapter 12: The Jewels Opens?

4. How does Satrapi avoid getting into trouble with the Guardians of the Revolution?

5. Describe Satrapi’s shopping trip with her mother’s friend’s children.

6. How is Satrapi’s life touched by the Iranian attack on Iraq?

7. What solution do Satrapi’s parents propose, to the trouble Satrapi keeps getting into?

8. What brings Mali and her children to Satrapi’s parents’ house?

9. Describe Satrapi’s departure from Iran.

10. How do conditions change as the war with Iraq drags on?

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