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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Satrapi’s mother upset with her and Mehri?
(a) For not telling her where they were going
(b) For stealing from her
(c) For lying to her
(d) For putting themselves in danger

2. Why is it ironic that the widow joined the protest that gathered around her husband’s body?
(a) Because her husband died of cancer
(b) Because she was not even Iranian
(c) Because her husband had supported the king
(d) Because he had been in the army himself

3. What did Iran’s geographical position dispose it toward?
(a) Wealth
(b) Invasion
(c) Isolation
(d) Agriculture

4. Who is the source of Marjane Satrapi’s sentiments about the king?
(a) Television broadcasts
(b) Her teacher
(c) Her friends
(d) Her parents

5. To whom does Marjane Satrapi compare her favorite writer, Ashraf Darvishian?
(a) Herman Melville
(b) Jane Austen
(c) Walt Whitman
(d) Charles Dickens

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What changed for Marjane Satrapi in the year when her story begins?

3. What does Satrapi want to play with her parents in Chapter 3?

4. Where is Ashraf Darvishian from?

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

(see the answer key)

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