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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Dead Flame, pages 101 to 115.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the mid 1950s, whose name does Shah Pahlavi forbid to be spoken?
(a) Doctor Mossadegh.
(b) Reza Khan.
(c) Soraya Esfandiari.
(d) His own name.

2. A newspaper article provides what reason for its assertion that Khomeini cannot be trusted?
(a) Khomeini is a foreigner.
(b) Khomeini has grown senile in his old age.
(c) Khomeini is only interested in amassing wealth.
(d) Khomeini is a Sunni Muslim.

3. How did Shah Pahlavi fund his Great Civilization?
(a) Iran's oil wealth.
(b) Extreme taxation.
(c) Funding from Western powers.
(d) His personal real estate fortune.

4. What brand of airplane is depicted in Photograph 11?
(a) Air Egypt.
(b) Lufthansa.
(c) Air Alaska.
(d) Delta.

5. What "psychological aspect" of revolution does Kapuscinski stress?
(a) Revolution occurs via the principle of reverse psychology.
(b) Kapuscinski uses the analogy of a volcano to talk about the anger of the people.
(c) For revolution to occur, the people must lose their fear.
(d) The people must become extremely fearful of the police state in order to revolt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is NOT a site of a massacre during the Iranian revolution?

2. According to Kapuscinski, most Shahs in Iran's history have suffered what fate?

3. Agha Mohammed Khan, during a massacre, ordered what fate for the children of the town?

4. Where does Kapuscinski trace modern terrorism to?

5. What happens to Doctor Mossadegh after he is deposed?

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