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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who created the first Iranian nation?

2. What service did Satrapi perform for Mehri?

3. How much older than Satrapi is Mehri, the maid?

4. What do the Guardians of the Revolution threaten Satrapi’s mother with?

5. What did Iran’s geographical position dispose it toward?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the visual style of Persepolis.

3. What did Satrapi learn from Ashraf Darvishian?

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

5. What trouble does Satrapi’s relationship with Mehri cause?

6. What is Satrapi’s father’s role in the developing political conflict?

7. Why is Satrapi disappointed with her father?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the most important plot points in Persepolis. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

Essay Topic 2

What topics would you like to research further, after reading Persepolis? Describe why additional research or reading would be beneficial to an understanding of this book. Propose a list of articles or books you would read in order to get a better handle on Persepolis.

Essay Topic 3

Use this book as a meditation on the value of a five-star rating system. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.

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