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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. What does Satrapi’s father tell the teacher?

2. What does Satrapi see when she looks for her parents over her shoulder?

3. How does Satrapi represent her feelings when she finds out her friend has been killed?

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

5. What does Satrapi do with all of her possessions?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do Satrapi’s parents smuggle their loot back into Iran?

3. How does it come about that Iran retaliates with an air strike on Iraq?

4. What is the routine Satrapi and her family follow once the bombings start?

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

6. Describe Satrapi’s departure from Iran.

7. What kind of atmosphere exists in the markets, as Chapter 12: The Jewels Opens?

8. How does Satrapi find out about her friend Neda Baba-Levy’s death?

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

10. How does Satrapi’s family try to overcome these obstacles to get Satrapi’s uncle medical care?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

Would you recommend Persepolis? For what purposes would you recommend Persepolis, and what kinds of readers would you recommend it for? What other book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?

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