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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. What do the newspapers report about Mahmud Azari's beating?
(a) The skew the facts to make the Savak look like the hero.
(b) They objectively present both sides for the reader to make up his or her own mind.
(c) They rightly report on the injustice committed against Azari.
(d) They do not report the event at all, trying to erase the memory of it.

2. What aspect of Iran is ignored by world media during Shah Pahlavi's modernization efforts?
(a) Poverty and oppression.
(b) The fabulous amount of wealth pouring into and out of the country.
(c) The increase in the price of oil.
(d) The buildup of nuclear power.

3. Who tells Azari that there has been a massacre in Qom?
(a) Mr. Ferdousi.
(b) Savak agents.
(c) Razak.
(d) His brother.

4. Why is Azari physically beaten?
(a) He was arbitrarily chosen while walking on the street.
(b) He was caught with revolutionist literature.
(c) He published an anti-Shah article in a newspaper.
(d) He attended secret, illegal meetings.

5. What country is Kapuscinski in at the beginning of the book?
(a) Iran.
(b) Saudi Arabia.
(c) Qatar.
(d) Poland.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the city streets of Tehran unsafe at night post-revolution?

2. Where must Mahmud Azari report to shortly upon his return to Iran?

3. What event starts the Iranian revolution?

4. Why did Mahmud Azari originally leave the country of Iran?

5. What is the Savak concept of guilt and innocence?

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