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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did Satrapi and her family have, once the alarms went off, before the missiles would strike?
(a) 15 seconds
(b) 6 minutes
(c) 3 minutes
(d) 30 seconds

2. What is it that injects blood into the veins of society?
(a) Military victories
(b) The death of a martyr
(c) Learning and art dedicated to war
(d) Plenty of decent funding

3. What do Marjane and her grandmother dispose of when they arrive at the house with the Guardians of the Revolution?
(a) Alcohol
(b) Western clothes
(c) Drugs
(d) Music

4. What did Satrapi’s mother make for her when she went to her first party?
(a) A punk necklace
(b) A new sweater
(c) A beautiful hat
(d) A delicate bracelet

5. What does Satrapi tell Pardisse after they give their reports?
(a) That her father is someplace better
(b) That her father is a hero
(c) That she can think of other people who should have died
(d) That she should be proud

6. Why do they choose that country?
(a) She could get a visa
(b) She has always loved Austrian culture
(c) She lived there as a child
(d) Her father's brother lives there

7. How did Satrapi’s mother find out that she cut class?
(a) A friend's mother called
(b) One of Satrapi's friends betrays her
(c) The school called
(d) Satrapi herself

8. What does Satrapi visit at Gandhi Avenue?
(a) A Western restaurant
(b) The black market
(c) The music store
(d) Her friend's house

9. Where do Satrapi’s friends take her during school?
(a) A Western hotel
(b) Kansas restaurant
(c) A dance club
(d) A black market

10. Why was the punishment Satrapi’s neighbor paid for having Western music in his house?
(a) 3 months in prison
(b) Loss of his house
(c) $500
(d) 75 lashes

11. Why will retributive bombing be difficult for Iran?
(a) The air force has largely defected
(b) The air force was dismantled by international law
(c) The fighter pilots have been imprisoned
(d) The fighter pilots were killed in the revolution

12. What buildings were considered bombproof in Tehran?
(a) Military armories
(b) Big hotels
(c) Shanties
(d) Mosques

13. Why does Satrapi say the government has not already closed the place her friends take her to?
(a) They did not know about it
(b) They ran it themselves
(c) They owners paid them protection money
(d) They tolerated it

14. Where does Satrapi’s father imply that Marjane gets her stubbornness from?
(a) Her school
(b) Her grandmother
(c) Her mother
(d) Him

15. What does Satrapi compare the war to?
(a) Her dog having died when she was small
(b) The Soviet-Afghan War
(c) The Vietnam War
(d) A war from 1400 years ago

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Satrapi describe her teacher’s response to her report?

2. What does Satrapi do with all of her possessions?

3. What percentage of the Iranian pilots did not return from the attack on Iraq?

4. What does Pardisse tell Satrapi in response?

5. What does Satrapi see when she looks for her parents over her shoulder?

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