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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What date does Kapuscinski provide for the start date of the Iranian revolution?
(a) January 8, 1978.
(b) December 22, 1974.
(c) September 4, 1977.
(d) October 7, 1982.

2. What are the two kinds of revolutions?
(a) Revolution by military, and revolution by civilians.
(b) Revolution by word, and revolution by deed.
(c) Revolution by violence, and revolution by peace.
(d) Revolution by siege, and revolution by assault.

3. In the extended metaphor of the play, who is the director?
(a) The Savak.
(b) Azari.
(c) Khomeini.
(d) The Shah.

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

5. What is the Shah's response to increasing revolution violence?
(a) He uses the police state to beat people into submission.
(b) He foolishly ignores it and concentrates on his modernization plans.
(c) He offers concessions to Khomeini and tries to appease him.
(d) He goes door-to-door to explain his position to the citizens.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were American hostages held as a result of the Iranian revolution?

2. Initially, what are Mahmud Azari's own political leanings?

3. What event, full of propaganda and feasts, does Mahmud Azari attend?

4. What kind of hallucination does Azari suffer after his beating?

5. According to Kapuscinski, the Shah has what view of human nature?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Mahmud Azari? What is the background of Mahmud Azari?

2. How does Mahmud Azari sum up the psychological atmosphere in Iran, and its relationship to the modernization going on?

3. What is the Shah forced by the Americans to do shortly before the revolution? How do the people react to the Shah's action?

4. Describe the paranoid fit that Azari suffers.

5. Why does Kapuscinski feels that Shah blundered in his response to unrest prior to the revolution?

6. What organizations rule after the Shah is deposed? How does Kapuscinski characterize this organizations?

7. What does Azari learn about old acquaintances upon his 1977 return to Iran?

8. Describe the incident in which Azari is beaten.

9. What is the national response to the massacre of Qom? What events follow the massacre?

10. What does Azari learn about his brother once he returns to Iran in 1977?

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