Persepolis Review

The setting of Persepolis is ___ in 1980.

• Kabul, Afghanistan

• Tehran, Iran

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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

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Marji wants to be a ___ when she grows up.

• prophet

• teacher

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

• Che Guevera

• Karl Marx

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

• Prime Minister

• Secretary of Defense

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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

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

• Marji's father

• the neighbor's son

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

• he is married to someone else

• they are from different social classes

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

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Marji loves Uncle Anoosh because ___.

• he always brings her presents from the Soviet Union

• he has been a political prisoner

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