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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. Where does the idea of sending Satrapi abroad originate?

2. What does Satrapi’s father tell the teacher?

3. What happened a year after Satrapi’s uncle Taher died?

4. How long did it take before Marjane Satrapi found out what happened to Pardisse’s father?

5. How long did Satrapi and her family have, once the alarms went off, before the missiles would strike?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Satrapi ask her parents to bring back for her from Turkey?

2. How does Satrapi find out about her friend Neda Baba-Levy’s death?

3. What trouble does Satrapi get into at school?

4. What is Satrapi’s mother’s reaction when the principal of the second school calls the house?

5. What solution do Satrapi’s parents propose, to the trouble Satrapi keeps getting into?

6. How does the war change at the beginning of Chapter 18: The Shabbat?

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

8. How does Satrapi avoid getting into trouble with the Guardians of the Revolution?

9. What confrontation do Satrapi and her classmates have with their teachers?

10. What act of rebelliousness does Satrapi perform?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Use this book as a meditation on the value of a five-star rating system. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

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