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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Satrapi’s grandmother say the Shah’s father spent the country’s money?
(a) On educational reforms
(b) On a lavish lifestyle
(c) On useless celebrations
(d) On military research

2. What was Mohsen’s crime?
(a) Advocating free markets
(b) Revolutionary activity
(c) Petty theft
(d) Owning a banned book

3. In what way does Marjane Satrapi emulate her grandfather?
(a) She goes among the people to hear what they think
(b) She stays in the bath until her skin is as wrinkled as his
(c) She reads the same books that inspired him
(d) She eats the same diet he was given while in prison

4. What is the swan made of, that Anoosh gives Marjane?
(a) A pebble
(b) An old knife
(c) Bread
(d) Paper

5. What closed in Iran in 1980?
(a) Iranian borders
(b) Iran's museums
(c) Universities
(d) Bilingual schools

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Satrapi and her family condemn in their neighbors?

2. What do Marjane Satrapi’s neighbors demonstrate after the celebration?

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

4. When does Satrapi’s account of Iranian history begin?

5. What prediction does Satrapi’s mother make about Ramin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What traumatic experience does Satrapi’s mother have?

2. How have conditions changed by the time Satrapi and her family return from vacation?

3. What are Satrapi’s feelings about her uncle’s stories?

4. How is Satrapi’s idea of the Iranian revolution different from her father’s?

5. Describe Satrapi’s point of view on the religious and cultural questions being debated around her at the beginning of Persepolis.

6. Describe Satrapi’s experience of her first protest.

7. What naïve view of Satrapi’s do Anoosh and her parents disabuse her of at the beginning of Chapter 9: The Sheep?

8. What causes the Satrapi family to go on vacation to Europe?

9. What did Satrapi learn from Ashraf Darvishian?

10. What are Satrapi and her family’s feelings about leaving Iran, and what decision do they make?

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