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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 buildings were considered bombproof in Tehran?
2. What does the attack in Chapter 11 make Satrapi want to do?
3. What work did Satrapi and her friends do for the war effort?
4. To what state does Satrapi’s father’s passport forbid travel?
5. How long did it take before Marjane Satrapi found out what happened to Pardisse’s father?
Short Essay Questions
1. What liberties does Satrapi take with her parents’ patience as political conditions deteriorate?
2. What act of rebelliousness does Satrapi perform?
3. How does Satrapi’s father narrowly avoid his troubles with the Guardians of the Revolution?
4. How does it come about that Iran retaliates with an air strike on Iraq?
5. What is Satrapi’s mother’s reaction when the principal of the second school calls the house?
6. What ceremonies do Satrapi and other Iranians perform in response to the war?
7. How do conditions change as the war with Iraq drags on?
8. What is Satrapi’s mother’s position on the war?
9. What trouble does Satrapi get into at school?
10. How do Satrapi’s parents smuggle their loot back into Iran?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What exactly is the basis of Satrapi and her family’s resistance to the Islamic regime in Iran? Where is the kernel of their values stated most plainly? What specific tenets of Islamic fundamentalism do Satrapi and her family resist?
Essay Topic 2
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?
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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