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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Marjane Satrapi say God looks like?
(a) Her grandfather
(b) Descartes
(c) The Shah
(d) Marx

2. What is Satrapi’s reaction to her father’s reaction to the romance between Mehri and the neighbor boy?
(a) She continues writing letters
(b) She sulks in her room
(c) She protests it
(d) She complains to her mother

3. What advice does Satrapi give at the end of her introduction?
(a) Forgive but never forget
(b) Never forgive atrocities
(c) Forget any wrongs if righting them will kill you
(d) Never forget your people

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

5. What was Satrapi’s grandfather’s role in the Iranian government?
(a) He was a local leader
(b) He was prime minister
(c) He was a political prisoner
(d) He was king

Short Answer Questions

1. Who immediately succeeded Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as the leader of Iran?

2. What did the king test out in the months after Black Friday?

3. What does Marjane Satrapi understand as a result of her reading?

4. Why did Satrapi’s mother dye her hair?

5. Marjane Satrapi’s father tells her the story of Iran. What did the king’s father, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, organize 50 years ago?

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