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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the extended metaphor of the play, who are the extras?
(a) The Iranian poor.
(b) The Savak.
(c) Freeloaders attracted by wealth.
(d) The mullahs.

2. What do protesters shout in unison in many of the pro-revolution films?
(a) Death to Khomeini!
(b) Death to Azari!
(c) Death to Ali!
(d) Death to the Shah!

3. What is the definition of "revolution by siege"?
(a) Revolution by siege seeks immediate violent remedy.
(b) Revolution by siege starts small and only builds gradually.
(c) Revolution by siege involves the destruction of buildings.
(d) Revolution by siege involves starving oneself in protest.

4. Where does Mahmud Azari live while away from Iran?
(a) London.
(b) New York.
(c) Bali.
(d) Johannesburg.

5. What action does America force the Shah to make, making the Shah appear weak?
(a) The Shah must reopen the U.S. Embassy.
(b) The Shah must stop producing nuclear energy.
(c) The Shah must release intellectuals from prison.
(d) The Shah must stop his Great Civilization plans.

6. Who is the subject of a memorable pro-revolution film showing the massacre of Isfahan?
(a) A legless invalid.
(b) Razak.
(c) A destroyer of monuments.
(d) Khomeini.

7. Where must Mahmud Azari report to shortly upon his return to Iran?
(a) A Savak office.
(b) Khomeini's mosque.
(c) The Shah's palace.
(d) The Teheran nuclear power plant.

8. What time does Razak begin work every day?
(a) 4 am.
(b) 11 pm.
(c) 8 am.
(d) 6 am.

9. Azari talks to a publisher who is proud of being able to publish a poem with what word in it?
(a) Oppression.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Free.
(d) Hideous.

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

11. What two camps does the post-revolution government divide itself into?
(a) Fascist and socialist.
(b) Liberal and anarcho-capitalist.
(c) Conservative and progressive.
(d) Siege and assault.

12. Which is NOT a site of a massacre during the Iranian revolution?
(a) Teheran.
(b) Tabriz.
(c) Qom.
(d) Kerman.

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

14. Why was the Iranian Writers' Association dissolved?
(a) It did not apply for a business license in order to protest the Shah's regime.
(b) Lack of interest.
(c) It was never dissolved.
(d) It was deemed a dangerous exchange of ideas.

15. Who is executed after the revolution is concluded?
(a) The Shah himself.
(b) Khomeini.
(c) Religious mullahs.
(d) Shah loyalists.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the Shah order a massacre of the people in order to please his army?

3. The destroyer of monuments has been destroying monuments for how long?

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

5. What government organizational structure emerges after the smoke clears from the revolution?

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