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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 long did it take before Marjane Satrapi found out what happened to Pardisse’s father?
(a) A week
(b) A day
(c) Two weeks
(d) A few hours

2. How do Satrapi and her friends leave the school?
(a) Climb the wall
(b) Walk through the front gate
(c) Hide in a truck
(d) Slip through the fence

3. Who is in charge of issuing Satrapi’s uncle Taher a pass to get medical care abroad?
(a) The Guardians
(b) A window washer
(c) The chief surgeon
(d) A friend of Satrapi's father

4. How did Satrapi’s feelings about the rituals change over time?
(a) She ends up being the only one who takes them seriously
(b) She ceases to take them seriously
(c) She saw the deeper meaning in them
(d) She begins to abstain in protest

5. What does Satrapi tell Pardisse after they give their reports?
(a) That she should be proud
(b) That her father is someplace better
(c) That she can think of other people who should have died
(d) That her father is a hero

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Satrapi describe the war in her report for school?

2. What promise does Satrapi make to her reflection in the mirror?

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

4. Who does Satrapi find hanging out at the place her friends take her to?

5. What does Satrapi say is her form of rebellion against the regime?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does it come about that Iran retaliates with an air strike on Iraq?

5. What turn did Satrapi’s life take after Neda Baba-Levy’s death?

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

7. How does the war change at the beginning of Chapter 18: The Shabbat?

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

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

10. What does Satrapi ask her parents to bring back for her from Turkey?

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