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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. Why is Satrapi’s friend leaving Iran?
(a) His parents have found a bride for him in Los Angeles
(b) His parents have been hired by the United States
(c) His parents think it is too dangerous
(d) His parents got him a visa to study in the United States

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

3. How many political prisoners were released at the beginning of Chapter 7: The Heroes?
(a) 300
(b) 150
(c) 15,000
(d) 3,000

4. What were Marjane Satrapi’s parents protesting?
(a) Pay cuts for civil servants
(b) Layoffs at the university
(c) The Westernization of Iran
(d) Government attacks on freedom

5. What does Marjane get in trouble for telling her friend about her father, who is in prison?
(a) That he is probably dead
(b) That he has probably been eaten
(c) That he is probably in America
(d) That he will never come home

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Siamak ultimately flee Iran?

2. Where is the one place Satrapi says she felt safe?

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

4. Whose thinking informs Anoosh’s thought in Chapter 9?

5. What does Satrapi say she gave up after talking about torture with her mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of future does Satrapi expect for herself, at the beginning of Persepolis?

2. What is Satrapi’s relationship with Mehri?

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

4. Describe the events that led up the Shah’s fall.

5. What did Satrapi learn from Ashraf Darvishian?

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

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

8. Describe the visual style of Persepolis.

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

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

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