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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. Mahmud Azari attends secret meetings for which organization?
(a) The University of Teheran.
(b) The CIA.
(c) The Iranian Writers' Association.
(d) The Savak.

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

3. Where did Kapuscinski participate in a protest march?
(a) Johannesburg.
(b) Isfahan.
(c) Qom.
(d) Engelob.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. While back in Iran, Mahmud Azari is handed revolutionist literature written by whom?

4. Who leads the conservative factions after the revolution?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the paranoid fit that Azari suffers.

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the march of Engelob that Kapuscinski participates in, and how it starts.

9. Describe the incident in which Azari is beaten.

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

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