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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the nickname for the electrically heated table that the Savak use for torture?
(a) The Fever Blister.
(b) The Hotcake.
(c) The Frying Pan.
(d) The Frog Jumper.

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

3. What action by the Shah compels Khomeini to begin speaking out against him?
(a) The Shah enjoys an extravagant vacation in Rome.
(b) The Shah orders a massacre at Qom.
(c) The Shah expands the Savak police force by a factor of ten.
(d) The Shah extends diplomatic immunity to all U.S. military personnel.

4. What was Ali's fate?
(a) He was imprisoned for life.
(b) Assassination.
(c) He fell off a horse in battle and died.
(d) He died of natural causes.

5. What emotion does the Savak use to control the population?
(a) Anger.
(b) Fear.
(c) False Happiness.
(d) Sadness.

6. What are name for Shiite religious leaders?
(a) Holy Clerics.
(b) Caliphs.
(c) Tsars.
(d) Ayatollahs.

7. What was the profession of the grandfather of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi?
(a) Moneylender.
(b) Persian carpet merchant.
(c) Journalist.
(d) Soldier.

8. What language is spoken by the majority of Iranians?
(a) Egyptian.
(b) Hebrew.
(c) English.
(d) Farsi.

9. What does Pahlavi do when confronted with a crisis of manpower during modernization?
(a) He imports foreigners to operate the technology of modernization.
(b) He builds many schools and universities to educate the people.
(c) He abandons his plans for modernization.
(d) He outsources his jobs to nearby Saudi Arabia.

10. Doctor Mossadegh importantly nationalized which industry in Iran?
(a) Oil.
(b) Military.
(c) Textile.
(d) Trains and railways.

11. What does the name Mahdi mean?
(a) The one led by God.
(b) He who does not tire or thirst.
(c) The persecuted minority.
(d) The bearer of the good news.

12. Consuming alcohol is punishable in post-revolution Iran with what punishment?
(a) Hanging.
(b) There is no law against alcohol.
(c) Public heckling.
(d) Whipping.

13. In "Cards, Faces, Fields of Flowers," what is Khomeini asking of the Iranian people in a televised speech?
(a) To embrace foreign influence.
(b) To murder Shiite muslims.
(c) To reject foreign influence.
(d) To reject the currency of the Shah.

14. Kapuscinski notes that Khomeini is successful because of his persistent emphasis of what single message?
(a) America is evil.
(b) Wealth should be redistributed.
(c) The U.S. embassy should be shut down.
(d) The Shah must go.

15. What is the Savak concept of guilt and innocence?
(a) The Savak are careful to arrest only those guilty of speaking against the Shah.
(b) The Savak care little for guilt or innocence, and they arrest people arbitrarily.
(c) The Savak arrest only innocent victims to create more fear.
(d) The Savak use the Western ideal of "innocent until proven guilty."

Short Answer Questions

1. In Photograph 1, one of the men in the photograph murdered which well-known figure?

2. How does world media respond to Shah Pahlavi's attempts to modernize Iran?

3. What important announcement does Shah Pahlavi make on December 23, 1973?

4. Who does Shah Pahlavi deliver his December 23, 1973 speech to?

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

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