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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Satrapi’s grandmother say she survived in her poverty?
(a) She took in sewing
(b) She got a job in a factory
(c) She left the country
(d) She remarried to a rich man

2. What is Marjane Satrapi’s relation to the deposed king?
(a) He was her great-grandfather
(b) He was her uncle
(c) He was her grandfather
(d) He was her great-uncle

3. What changed for Marjane Satrapi in the year when her story begins?
(a) She had to wear a veil at school
(b) Her father lost his job
(c) Her family left Iran
(d) She started a new school

4. How does Satrapi’s father characterize Mohammad Reza Pahlavi?
(a) As a popular leader
(b) As a humble reformer
(c) As a popular leader
(d) As a tool of the English

5. When was Iran modernized?
(a) 20th century
(b) 19th century
(c) 18th century
(d) 16th century

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Satrapi’s father nearly arrested?

2. What closed in Iran in 1980?

3. When does Satrapi realize that she doesn’t understand anything?

4. What did Satrapi say she wanted to be, when she grew up?

5. Why is it ironic that the widow joined the protest that gathered around her husband’s body?

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