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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. What does Satrapi get in trouble for, after the schools reopen?

2. What prediction does Anoosh make to Satrapi?

3. When was Iran modernized?

4. To whom does Marjane Satrapi compare her favorite writer, Ashraf Darvishian?

5. What was Mohsen called in prison?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Anoosh’s role in Iran’s history?

2. What naïve view of Satrapi’s do Anoosh and her parents disabuse her of at the beginning of Chapter 9: The Sheep?

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

4. Why is Satrapi disappointed with her father?

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

6. What is Satrapi’s relationship with Mehri?

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

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

9. What lesson does Satrapi’s mother teach her about injustice?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the most important plot points in Persepolis. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

Essay Topic 2

Would you recommend Persepolis? For what purposes would you recommend Persepolis, and what kinds of readers would you recommend it for? What other book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?

Essay Topic 3

In what ways is Persepolis an American book? What part of the American experience does Persepolis resonate with? Using examples from the text, say whether or how Persepolis represents the American experience.

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