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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 "key sanctuary" for Iranians during the Shah's regime?
(a) The private home.
(b) The mosque.
(c) The bathhouse.
(d) The market.

2. Why is Azari physically beaten?
(a) He was caught with revolutionist literature.
(b) He published an anti-Shah article in a newspaper.
(c) He attended secret, illegal meetings.
(d) He was arbitrarily chosen while walking on the street.

3. Who does Mahmud Azari NOT visit during his return to Iran?
(a) A botany professor.
(b) A mayor.
(c) A destroyer of monuments to the Shah.
(d) His brother.

4. How old is Razak?
(a) 18.
(b) 9.
(c) 12.
(d) 15.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where must Azari get stitches after his beating?

2. How long is Mahmud Azari away from his native Iran?

3. How does authority cause revolution, according to Kapuscinski?

4. Where did Kapuscinski participate in a protest march?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What immediate actions does Shah Pahlavi take in response to increasing unrest just prior to full-scale revolution?

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

5. Describe the paranoid fit that Azari suffers.

6. What does Kapuscinski cite as the true cause of the Iranian revolution?

7. What extended metaphor does Kapuscinski offer for the relationship between the Shah, the Great Civilization, and the people of Iran?

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

9. What are the two types of revolution? Define them.

10. What is significant about the trip Kapuscinski makes in December 1978?

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