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

2. What was Satrapi’s grandfather’s role in the Iranian government?
(a) He was prime minister
(b) He was a local leader
(c) He was king
(d) He was a political prisoner

3. What advice does Satrapi give at the end of her introduction?
(a) Forget any wrongs if righting them will kill you
(b) Forgive but never forget
(c) Never forget your people
(d) Never forgive atrocities

4. 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

5. What do Satrapi and her family condemn in their neighbors?
(a) Drinking
(b) Islamic fundamentalism
(c) Western habits
(d) Hypocrisy

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Guardians of the Revolution intimidate Siamak?

2. Why does Satrapi love Anoosh right away?

3. Where did Anoosh say he suffered most?

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

5. Who does Marjane Satrapi say God looks like?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Satrapi’s relationship with the Iranian cultural revolution?

3. What changes did the Shah make in Iran when he was installed in the 1950s?

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

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

6. What is Satrapi’s family’s connection to the revolution?

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

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

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

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