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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 is the occupation of Mr. Ferdousi?
(a) Politician.
(b) Academic.
(c) Destroyer of monuments.
(d) Carpet salesman.

2. What aspect of the revolution does Europe express outrage over?
(a) Public executions.
(b) Adulation of Khomeini.
(c) Committee-based leadership.
(d) Censorship of books and newspapers.

3. After massacres, the dead are commemorated in a service after how many days?
(a) One hundred days.
(b) Seven days.
(c) Ninety days.
(d) Forty days.

4. The Savak conduct a raid on which location, resulting in the arrest of many students?
(a) A bazaar.
(b) A mosque.
(c) A university.
(d) A private home holding secret meetings.

5. Where does Mahmud Azari live while away from Iran?
(a) New York.
(b) Bali.
(c) London.
(d) Johannesburg.

Short Answer Questions

1. Azari talks to a publisher who is proud of being able to publish a poem with what word in it?

2. How long is Mahmud Azari away from his native Iran?

3. In the extended metaphor of the play, what are the props and scenery?

4. Who tells Azari that there has been a massacre in Qom?

5. In the extended metaphor of the play, who is the star?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the paranoid fit that Azari suffers.

2. What is the Shah forced by the Americans to do shortly before the revolution? How do the people react to the Shah's action?

3. Explain the pre-revolution events involving a) a wild horse, b) a university, and c) a riot in Qom.

4. Why is Azari shocked when he returns to Teheran for the first time in eight years?

5. What are the two types of revolution? Define them.

6. Who is Mahmud Azari? What is the background of Mahmud Azari?

7. How does Mahmud Azari sum up the psychological atmosphere in Iran, and its relationship to the modernization going on?

8. What does Azari learn about his brother once he returns to Iran in 1977?

9. What happens in Qom as a result of an unflattering article in Etelat about Khomeini that spurs the revolution?

10. Describe the "professional wrecker" that Kapuscinski interviews in "The Dead Flame."

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