Persepolis Review

The setting of Persepolis is ___ in 1980.

• Kabul, Afghanistan

• Tehran, Iran

According to the cultural revolutionaries, bilingual schools represent ___.

• America

• capitalism

Marji's mother ___ to protect herself after a picture of her is published around the world.

• changes her name

• dyes her hair

Marji wants to be a ___ when she grows up.

• prophet

• teacher

Marji and her childhood friends dress up as Leon Trotsky, Fidel Castro, and ___.

• Che Guevera

• Karl Marx

Marji's grandfather was the ___ in the shah's regime.

• Prime Minister

• Secretary of Defense

When Marji learns of her grandfather's imprisonment and torture, she ___ so that she can better understand what her grandfather must have experienced.

• doesn't eat for a week

• spends a long time in the bathtub

The Satrapi's maid, Mehri, falls in love with ___.

• Marji's father

• the neighbor's son

Mehri and the man she likes can never be together because ___.

• he is married to someone else

• they are from different social classes

Marji loves Uncle Anoosh because ___.

• he always brings her presents from the Soviet Union

• he has been a political prisoner