View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marjane Satrapi want to hurt her classmate Ramin for?
(a) Her father's actions under the Shah
(b) His Jewishness
(c) His personal insults toward her
(d) His family being rich while others suffered

2. What Marjane Satrapi’s solution to not knowing anything?
(a) She asks her friends for explanations
(b) She has bad dreams even though she tries not to think about it
(c) She reads everything she can
(d) She goes back to playing with her friends

3. What prediction does Satrapi’s mother make about Ramin?
(a) That he will never learn
(b) That he will be punished
(c) That he will repent one day
(d) That he will be tortured in his own way

4. What did Mohammad Reza Pahlavi have to give up, in order to lead Iran?
(a) Nothing
(b) Iranian oil
(c) Control of the parliament to the opposition parties
(d) Borderlands

5. What was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s goal?
(a) Republican reforms
(b) An open market
(c) An Islamist state
(d) Religious freedom

Short Answer Questions

1. What began to happen regularly after Black Friday?

2. What had just happened the year before Satrapi’s story begins?

3. What is Ramin’s response when Marjane tries to forgive him?

4. What is Satrapi’s father’s reaction when he hears about Mehri’s romance with the neighbor boy?

5. Who created the first Iranian nation?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 264 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample