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Persepolis Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The setting of Persepolis is ___ in 1980.

a)

Kabul, Afghanistan

b)

Tehran, Iran

2.

According to the cultural revolutionaries, bilingual schools represent ___.

a)

America

b)

capitalism

3.

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

a)

changes her name

b)

dyes her hair

4.

Marji wants to be a ___ when she grows up.

a)

prophet

b)

teacher

5.

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

a)

Che Guevera

b)

Karl Marx

6.

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

a)

Prime Minister

b)

Secretary of Defense

7.

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

a)

doesn't eat for a week

b)

spends a long time in the bathtub

8.

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

a)

Marji's father

b)

the neighbor's son

9.

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

a)

he is married to someone else

b)

they are from different social classes

10.

Marji loves Uncle Anoosh because ___.

a)

he always brings her presents from the Soviet Union

b)

he has been a political prisoner

11.

When Marji and her parents return from their trip to Italy and Spain, they learn that Iran is at war with ___.

a)

Afghanistan

b)

Iraq

12.

The prisoners that Marji's family knew are released from prison and then ___.

a)

exiled to Siberia

b)

killed by the new regime

13.

Uncle Anoosh is eventually executed for ___.

a)

being a Soviet spy

b)

embezzling from the shah

14.

The Iranian government recruits boys from ___ into the military.

a)

poor and uneducated families

b)

wealthy and educated families

15.

___ people die in the fire at the Rex Theater.

a)

Two hundred

b)

Four hundred

16.

Marji's mother agrees to wear the veil after ___.

a)

she is assaulted by strangers when her car breaks down

b)

she is attacked at a protest for refusing to wear the veil

17.

After being scolded by her mother for lying about skipping school, Marji ___ in order to "kiss childhood goodbye."

a)

gets a tattoo

b)

smokes her first cigarette

18.

When Marji's parents travel to Turkey, they bring her back new clothes and ___.

a)

books

b)

posters

19.

When the principal of Marji's school threatens to punish Marji for wearing a bracelet, Marji ___.

a)

hits the principal

b)

stages a protest

20.

Fearing for her safety, Marji's parents send her to ___ in order to finish her education.

a)

Paris, France

b)

Vienna, Austria