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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 did Satrapi’s father get rid of the Guardians of the Revolution?

2. Why does Satrapi’s mother put up dark curtains?

3. Where do Satrapi’s parents send her?

4. What promise does Satrapi make to her reflection in the mirror?

5. How did Satrapi’s feelings about the rituals change over time?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What act of rebelliousness does Satrapi perform?

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

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

5. What difficulties does Satrapi and her family have in getting her uncle medical care?

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

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

8. How does Satrapi’s father narrowly avoid his troubles with the Guardians of the Revolution?

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

10. What trouble does Satrapi get into at school?

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

In what ways is Persepolis an American book? What part of the American experience does Persepolis resonate with? Using examples from the text, say whether or how Persepolis represents the American experience.

Essay Topic 3

What does it mean for Marjane Satrapi to be a prophet, and how does she go about becoming a prophet throughout Persepolis? How does her idea about being a prophet change throughout the story?

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