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

2. What was Mohsen called in prison?

3. When was Fereydoon’s son conceived?

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

5. What Marjane Satrapi’s solution to not knowing anything?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Satrapi disappointed with her father?

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

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

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

5. Describe Satrapi’s point of view on the religious and cultural questions being debated around her at the beginning of Persepolis.

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

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

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

9. What trouble does Satrapi’s relationship with Mehri cause?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

What morals does Satrapi’s graphic novel teach? Which characters are the best teachers? How does Satrapi herself learn different lessons? Which lessons demand the most from her?

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