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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. Who tells Azari that there has been a massacre in Qom?
(a) Razak.
(b) Mr. Ferdousi.
(c) His brother.
(d) Savak agents.

2. Why do many wear white to protests during the revolution?
(a) To commemorate the dead.
(b) To show they wish to be reborn as a nation.
(c) To show they are unafraid of death.
(d) To show they are pure of spirit and free of sin.

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

4. Where must Razak go to find work?
(a) Isfahan.
(b) Teheran.
(c) Qom.
(d) Tabriz.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Razak's job?

2. What is the most permanent form of revolution?

3. What is the Shah's response to increasing revolution violence?

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

5. What ethnicity was Khomeini's grandfather?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens in Qom as a result of an unflattering article in Etelat about Khomeini that spurs the revolution?

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

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

6. What is the nature of the January 8, 1978 article in Etelat that helped to spur the Iranian revolution?

7. Describe the "professional wrecker" that Kapuscinski interviews in "The Dead Flame."

8. Explain the pre-revolution events involving a) a wild horse, b) a university, and c) a riot in Qom.

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

10. What common structure unites pro-revolution films on television, according to Kapuscinski?

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