Persepolis Background and First Part

Why doesn't Marji think her father is a hero?

• She thinks he is a coward for not demonstrating against the government.

• His photography did not expose the government's abuses of the people.

• She thought he should not have told her neighbor about Mehri's lie about her identity.

• He was not imprisoned, like some of her friends' fathers were.

Why was Great Britain interested in Iran in the early 1900s?

• They wanted to colonize the country to expand their empire?

• They wanted the gold the country had.

• They wanted the country's oil.

• They wanted to convert the people to Christianity.

Why did so many people support getting rid of the Shah?

• They wanted an Islamic government.

• They thought the Shah gave too much power to western influences.

• They thought the Shah was corrupt and violent.

• There were many reasons, including all three of these choices.

What government resulted from the 1979 revolution?

• A communist government

• the Islamic Republic

• a weak democracy

• a colonial government under Great Britain

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Who is Anoosh?

• A leader of the Islamic revolution who Marji's family knows.

• Marji's uncle, who was an ally of the Shah.

• Marji's uncle, who was a Marxist (communist) and opposed the Shah.

• Marji's family friend, who worked for the Russian government.

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Who was Fereydoon (p 55)?

• The Shah's minister who fought against the USSR (communist Russia).

• Anoosh's uncle who tried to make Azerbaijan (an Iranian province) an independent state from the Shah's Iran.

• Anoosh's boss who sent him to Russia.

• An Iranian clergyman.

What happened to Fereydoon?

• He went into exile in Iraq.

• He was executed by the Shah.

• He escaped to Russia and snuck back to Iran later.

• He helped with the revolution in Iran to overthrow the Shah.

Why do you think the chapter that starts on p. 62 is called "The Sheep"?

• Anoosh pointed out how uneducated, and therefore easy to manipulate, the people of Iran were, like a herd of sheep. It's a metaphor.

• Siamak and his family escaped execution by sneaking out of the country among a herd of sheep (Odysseus, anyone?).

• Both of the other answers are correct -- it is both a metaphor and a comment about Siamak's having to escape to survive.

Why did the revolutionaries who worked against the Shah also become enemies of the Islamic leaders?

• They wanted a more free society than the Islamic leaders were going to provide, so they were dangerous to the new regime also.

• The new regime wanted to punish the Shah's enemies in a show of respect.

• The revolutionaries committed crimes against the people of Iran, so had to be punished.

• The revolutionaries supported Great Britain against the clergy.

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Why did Anoosh leave for Russia in "The Sheep"?

• He wanted to see his wife.

• He was being targeted by Iran's leaders as a threat.

• He was wanted in Iran for crimes against the people.

• He was sick and needed medical treatment.