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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 other rituals does Satrapi describe?

2. What percentage of the Iranian pilots did not return from the attack on Iraq?

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

4. What does Satrapi do with all of her possessions?

5. Why was the punishment Satrapi’s neighbor paid for having Western music in his house?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What act of rebelliousness does Satrapi perform?

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

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

8. How do Satrapi’s parents smuggle their loot back into Iran?

9. What ceremonies do Satrapi and other Iranians perform in response to the war?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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