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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 compare the war to?

2. How did Pardisse write her report?

3. What rare music does Satrapi hear on the TV after the Iraqi bombing?

4. Where does the idea of sending Satrapi abroad originate?

5. Where do the Satrapis get their news?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Satrapi’s family try to overcome these obstacles to get Satrapi’s uncle medical care?

2. Why doesn’t the war end when Iraq makes a peace proposal?

3. What turn did Satrapi’s life take after Neda Baba-Levy’s death?

4. What is the routine Satrapi and her family follow once the bombings start?

5. How do conditions change as the war with Iraq drags on?

6. What trouble does Satrapi get into at the next school she goes to?

7. What is Satrapi’s mother’s position on the war?

8. Describe Satrapi’s shopping trip with her mother’s friend’s children.

9. How is Satrapi’s life touched by the Iranian attack on Iraq?

10. How does Satrapi say the Iranian currency has changed during the war?

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

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

Write an evaluative review of Persepolis. What is this book’s place in culture? What are its uses? What are its limitations?

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