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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Satrapi’s account of her life begin?

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

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

4. What service did Satrapi perform for Mehri?

5. When was Fereydoon’s son conceived?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Satrapi learn from Ashraf Darvishian?

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

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

5. Why does Satrapi say she wanted to write Persepolis?

6. What is it that causes Satrapi to realize that she doesn’t know anything, and what is her response to it?

7. What is the problem with Marxism in Iran, according to Anoosh?

8. What is Satrapi’s relationship with Mehri?

9. Describe the visual style of Persepolis.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 2

Write a character sketch of the author based on her style and content. What values does she hold dear? What are her hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think she is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.

Essay Topic 3

Use this book as a meditation on the value of a five-star rating system. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.

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