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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 does Satrapi’s father tell the teacher?
(a) Go easy on the kids
(b) To be ashamed
(c) Shave her mustache
(d) Cover his face

2. What does Satrapi say Iranians are Olympic athletes in?
(a) Fact-checking
(b) Gossip
(c) Exaggeration
(d) Science

3. Where is Satrapi when the Iraq jets bomb Tehran?
(a) Her father's office
(b) The park
(c) Her house
(d) At school

4. How does Satrapi represent her feelings when she finds out her friend has been killed?
(a) Concentric circles
(b) A scene of falling
(c) An all-black panel
(d) Arrows piercing her heart

5. What work did Satrapi and her friends do for the war effort?
(a) Volunteer at hospitals
(b) Collects food for refugees
(c) Knit winter hoods for the troops
(d) Deliver aid to families

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the Satrapis get their news?

2. Why does Satrapi say that her parents wanted to stay in Tehran?

3. How does Satrapi say the regime changed throughout the war?

4. Why does Satrapi say the government has not already closed the place her friends take her to?

5. What does Pardisse tell Satrapi in response?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Satrapi’s father narrowly avoid his troubles with the Guardians of the Revolution?

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

7. What is Satrapi’s mother’s reaction when the principal of the second school calls the house?

8. What trouble does Satrapi get into at school?

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

10. What is Satrapi’s mother’s position on the war?

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