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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 Pardisse tell Satrapi in response?

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

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

4. What happened to Pardisse’s father during the attack on Iraq?

5. How did Satrapi’s mother find out that she cut class?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What act of rebelliousness does Satrapi perform?

3. What does the plastic key signify for Satrapi’s maid?

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

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

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

7. What liberties does Satrapi take with her parents’ patience as political conditions deteriorate?

8. How does it come about that Iran retaliates with an air strike on Iraq?

9. What kind of atmosphere exists in the markets, as Chapter 12: The Jewels Opens?

10. Describe Satrapi’s departure from Iran.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is the audience for Persepolis? What is the ideal reader for Persepolis likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?

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

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?

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