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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 do Satrapi’s friends react to her made-up stories about her parents?

2. What were Marjane Satrapi’s parents protesting?

3. What does Satrapi’s mother say about torturers?

4. What assurance does Satrapi’s mother give her after she is upset about torturers?

5. What is Marjane Satrapi’s relation to the deposed king?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Satrapi learn from Ashraf Darvishian?

3. What are Satrapi and her family’s feelings about leaving Iran, and what decision do they make?

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

5. Describe Satrapi’s experience of her first protest.

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

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

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

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

10. Describe the visual style of Persepolis.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

Watch the film of Persepolis. Compare and contrast the film, which Satrapi herself consulted on, and the book. How are they similar? How are they different? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?

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