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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. Why was Satrapi’s father nearly arrested?

2. Who is the source of Marjane Satrapi’s sentiments about the king?

3. What does Marjane Satrapi want to hurt her classmate Ramin for?

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

5. What began to happen regularly after Black Friday?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Satrapi’s status as a child create humor in Persepolis?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What exactly is the basis of Satrapi and her family’s resistance to the Islamic regime in Iran? Where is the kernel of their values stated most plainly? What specific tenets of Islamic fundamentalism do Satrapi and her family resist?

Essay Topic 2

How would you rewrite Persepolis, if you were to adapt it and make it your own. What part of the book would you preserve? What part would you change? Explain your motivation for the changes you would make.

Essay Topic 3

When is Persepolis most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?

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