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

2. After massacres, the dead are commemorated in a service after how many days?
(a) One hundred days.
(b) Forty days.
(c) Seven days.
(d) Ninety days.

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

4. To start the revolution, people in Qom commit what crime?
(a) They congregate in large groups.
(b) They read out loud.
(c) They steal bread to feed their starving families.
(d) They deface images of the Shah.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kapuscinski, revolution is caused by what?

2. What kind of government do conservatives wish to establish in Iran?

3. When Kapuscinski witnesses a protest march, what subject is a man singing about?

4. Where does the Shah hold a parade in support of himself amid the violence of the revolution?

5. What is the word for the religious, social, and market-oriented gathering place for Iranians?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Razak? Describe his circumstances.

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

3. What do revolution leaders do with Shah loyalists, and how does this action demonstrate a wide divide between Iranian and Western cultures?

4. Explain Azari's association with the Iranian Writers' Association.

5. Describe the meeting Azari has with a publisher friend.

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

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

8. What anecdote does Kapuscinski share about the Persian carpet salesman, and what is this salesman's message?

9. Why does Kapuscinski call revolution a drama?

10. Why is Azari shocked when he returns to Teheran for the first time in eight years?

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