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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 are Satrapi and her friends asked to do in school?
(a) Lament for the dead
(b) Tear their hair
(c) Beat their breasts
(d) Utter ritualistic cries

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

3. What role does Satrapi’s mother play when the family is stopped by Guardians of the Revolution?
(a) She tempts the soldier
(b) She kills the soldier
(c) She antagonizes the soldier
(d) She mollifies the soldier

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

5. What did Satrapi say made it hard to look at her uncle Taher?
(a) Anger
(b) Sadness
(c) Scars from torture
(d) Injuries

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Satrapi’s father react to the trouble she gets into at school?

2. How did Satrapi’s mother find out that she cut class?

3. Where does Satrapi’s father imply that Marjane gets her stubbornness from?

4. What work did Satrapi and her friends do for the war effort?

5. Who does Satrapi find hanging out at the place her friends take her to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What liberties does Satrapi take with her parents’ patience as political conditions deteriorate?

2. How does Satrapi’s father narrowly avoid his troubles with the Guardians of the Revolution?

3. How does the war change at the beginning of Chapter 18: The Shabbat?

4. What is Satrapi’s mother’s position on the war?

5. What ceremonies do Satrapi and other Iranians perform in response to the war?

6. Describe Satrapi’s shopping trip with her mother’s friend’s children.

7. What difficulties does Satrapi and her family have in getting her uncle medical care?

8. What solution do Satrapi’s parents propose, to the trouble Satrapi keeps getting into?

9. What confrontation do Satrapi and her classmates have with their teachers?

10. What does Satrapi ask her parents to bring back for her from Turkey?

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