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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. What does Satrapi say she gave up after talking about torture with her mother?
(a) Thoughts of revenge
(b) Childish thinking
(c) Dialectical materialism
(d) Agnosticism

2. What does Marjane Satrapi understand as a result of her reading?
(a) She wanted to be a prophet
(b) She was ashamed to ride in her father's Cadillac
(c) Her parents had protested to preserve the old aristocracy
(d) Her parents had wanted to flee the country

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

4. What was Siamak’s crime?
(a) Marrying an American
(b) Writing subversive articles
(c) Protesting the government
(d) Witnessing police brutality

5. How old was Satrapi’s maid when she came to live with the family?
(a) 18
(b) 4
(c) 12
(d) 8

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Satrapi’s account of her life begin?

2. Where had Satrapi’s father spent the day, when he returns at night?

3. How do Satrapi’s parents justify remaining in Iran?

4. What did Satrapi say Islam is against?

5. How do Satrapi and her family oppose the Islamic Revolution?

Short Essay Questions

1. What lesson does Satrapi’s mother teach her about injustice?

2. Describe Satrapi’s experiments in playing ‘torture.’

3. What is the problem with Marxism in Iran, according to Anoosh?

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

5. Why did Satrapi get in trouble for what she told Siamak’s daughter?

6. Why does Satrapi say she wanted to write Persepolis?

7. What is Anoosh’s role in Iran’s history?

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

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

10. What kinds of torture do Siamak and Mohsen describe having suffered in prison?

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