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WorksheetsPersepolis Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 7mins
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
When Marji and her parents return from their trip to Italy and Spain, they learn that Iran is at war with ___.
Afghanistan
Iraq
The prisoners that Marji's family knew are released from prison and then ___.
exiled to Siberia
killed by the new regime
Uncle Anoosh is eventually executed for ___.
being a Soviet spy
embezzling from the shah
The Iranian government recruits boys from ___ into the military.
poor and uneducated families
wealthy and educated families
___ people die in the fire at the Rex Theater.
Two hundred
Four hundred
Marji's mother agrees to wear the veil after ___.
she is assaulted by strangers when her car breaks down
she is attacked at a protest for refusing to wear the veil
After being scolded by her mother for lying about skipping school, Marji ___ in order to "kiss childhood goodbye."
gets a tattoo
smokes her first cigarette
When Marji's parents travel to Turkey, they bring her back new clothes and ___.
books
posters
When the principal of Marji's school threatens to punish Marji for wearing a bracelet, Marji ___.
hits the principal
stages a protest
Fearing for her safety, Marji's parents send her to ___ in order to finish her education.
Paris, France
Vienna, Austria
