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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 did Mohammad Reza Pahlavi have to give up, in order to lead Iran?

3. How is Mohsen killed?

4. What resource changed Iran’s economy?

5. What does Marjane Satrapi understand as a result of her reading?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Satrapi’s idea of the Iranian revolution different from her father’s?

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

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

4. How does Satrapi’s status as a child create humor in Persepolis?

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

6. What is Satrapi’s family’s connection to the revolution?

7. What is Satrapi’s relationship with Mehri?

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

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

10. Describe the events that led up the Shah’s fall.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In many places, Satrapi uses irony to comment on her own innocence, on her parents’ contradictions, or on the Islamic revolution. Using examples from the text, describe the patterns that run through Satrapi’s use of irony. What kinds of latent meanings does she express? What kind of point of view does she expect her reader to share with her, to understand her irony?

Essay Topic 2

What does it mean for Marjane Satrapi to be a prophet, and how does she go about becoming a prophet throughout Persepolis? How does her idea about being a prophet change throughout the story?

Essay Topic 3

What are the advantages and disadvantages of the graphic novel format? What kinds of things does this genre do well? What could have been done better in a prose novel, or even in a movie?

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