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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. How does authority cause revolution, according to Kapuscinski?
(a) By its own sense of invincibility.
(b) By its own sense of pride.
(c) By its own sense of destiny.
(d) By its own sense of history.

2. How can Khomeini's living conditions be described?
(a) He lives in a grand, new palace.
(b) He lives in a dusty hovel.
(c) He lives in a modest apartment building.
(d) He occupies the former palace of the Shah.

3. About how far away is Qom from Tehran?
(a) 4000 miles.
(b) 100 miles.
(c) 1000 miles.
(d) 3 miles.

4. In Photograph 7, why is the old man taken away from the bus stop?
(a) He allowed his daughter to walk the street without a veil.
(b) He was yelling at a man who happened to be a member of the Savak.
(c) He was distributing anti-Shah pamphlets.
(d) He mentioned the word "oppressive."

5. What ethnicity was Khomeini's grandfather?
(a) Saudi Arabian.
(b) Iranian.
(c) Pakistani.
(d) Indian.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Azari that there has been a massacre in Qom?

2. Azari talks to a publisher who is proud of being able to publish a poem with what word in it?

3. After Azari's beating, what powerful emotion grips him?

4. Who does Reza Khan replace as a military commander in 1917?

5. What political party is Mahmud Azari forced to join?

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