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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. How is Mohsen killed?

2. What advice does Satrapi give at the end of her introduction?

3. What does Satrapi say she gave up after talking about torture with her mother?

4. What does Marjane Satrapi want to hurt her classmate Ramin for?

5. What was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s goal?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the visual style of Persepolis.

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

5. What is Satrapi’s relationship with the Iranian cultural revolution?

6. What did Satrapi learn from Ashraf Darvishian?

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

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

9. What is Satrapi’s relationship with Mehri?

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

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

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?

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