Shah of Shahs Test | Final Test - Easy

Ryszard Kapuściński
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 122 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Shah of Shahs Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the extended metaphor of the play, how is revolt (or revolution) demonstrated?
(a) Stagehands trying to act.
(b) Actors forgetting their lines.
(c) The Shah closing the theater.
(d) The audience booing loudly.

3. Which organization is responsible for censorship decisions under the Shah?
(a) The Office of General Information.
(b) The Savak.
(c) The religious mullahs.
(d) The Iranian Writers' Association.

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

5. According to Kapuscinski, revolution is caused by what?
(a) Ideas.
(b) Oppression.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Military abuses.

6. What has become of a poet friend of Azari's?
(a) The poet has become an important revolutionary voice.
(b) The poet has become jailed for writing anti-Shah poems.
(c) The poet writes poems that always praise the Shah.
(d) The poet has given up poetry altogether due to censorship.

7. What times does Razak work until every day?
(a) 1 am.
(b) 1 pm.
(c) 9 pm.
(d) 5 pm.

8. Which government newspaper prints an unflattering article about Khomeini?
(a) Etelat.
(b) Iran Daily.
(c) Hamshahri.
(d) Teheran Times.

9. Who leads the progressive factions after the revolution?
(a) Beheshti.
(b) Bani Sadr.
(c) Razak Ferdousi.
(d) Mahmud Azari.

10. What is Mahmud Azari's brother's part in the revolution?
(a) The brother is a member of the Savak.
(b) The brother is solidly pro-Shah.
(c) The brother stays out of the fight and is apolitical.
(d) The brother is a revolutionary who speaks against the Shah.

11. What event starts the Iranian revolution?
(a) Children in the city of Kerman are blinded by the military.
(b) Students are arrested in a raid.
(c) An unflattering article about Khomeini is printed in a newspaper.
(d) The Iranian Writers' Association holds a mass protest.

12. What aspect of the revolution does Europe express outrage over?
(a) Committee-based leadership.
(b) Adulation of Khomeini.
(c) Censorship of books and newspapers.
(d) Public executions.

13. Where does the Shah hold a parade in support of himself amid the violence of the revolution?
(a) Tabriz.
(b) Qom.
(c) Teheran.
(d) Isfahan.

14. What is Razak's job?
(a) Making paper.
(b) Entertaining the Shah with his singing.
(c) Working in a coal mine.
(d) Making bread.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After massacres, the dead are commemorated in a service after how many days?

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

3. Why does Kapuscinski believe revolutions often preach a return to tradition?

4. What is the definition of "revolution by assault"?

5. Why was the Iranian Writers' Association dissolved?

(see the answer keys)

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