Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Quizzes

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Quiz 1

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1 Who were the first people to come to Iran?

Alexander the Great

Indo-European invaders

Cyrus the Great

Mongolian armies
2 What was the name of the country before it was called Iran?

Aryan

Persia

Indo-Europe

Iraq
3 Which twentieth century Iranian ruler renamed the country Iran?

The Shah

Reza Shah

the British Prime Minister

Mossadeq
4 How was Mossadeq removed from power?

peaceful succession of power

resignation

coup

assassination
5 On which side did Iran fight during World War II?

it was neutral

the Persian powers

the Axis powers

the Allied powers
6 In what year did it become mandatory for Iranian girls to wear veils at school?

1984

1980

1990

1979
7 According to the cultural revolutionaries, what do bilingual schools represent?

America

colonialism

capitalism

poor education
8 What does the author's mother do to protect herself after a picture of her is published around the world?

she changes her name

she does not go out in public

she dyes her hair

she wears heavy coats
9 According to the author, who was the first prophet of Iran?

Zarathustra

Mohammed

Abraham

Moses
10 The author and her friends, as children, do not dress up as which revolutionary figure?

Leon Trotsky

Fidel Castro

Che Guevara

Karl Marx
11 Why is the author so well versed in world history?

she overhears dinner table conversations

she sees historical films at a local theater

her parents bought her books as a child

she watches historical dramas on television
12 How many people die in the fire at the Rex Theater?

200

400

1000

750
13 The author says that the revolution is like what form of transportation?

car

train

bus

bicycle
14 As a child, what is the author's favorite comic book?

Superman

The Wealth of Nations

Recognition of Patterns

Dialectic Materialism
15 What games does Marjane want to play with her parents when they return from the political rallys?

Risk

Battleship

Monopoly

Life
16 Who was the father of the Shah, responsible for the overthrow of the King of Persia?

Fereydoon Shah

Reza Shah

Khosar

Zarathustra
17 What leader of Turkey declared the state a "Western nation?"

Ataturk

Fereydoon

Ghandi

Reza Shah
18 Which Western nation supports Reza Shah in his overthrow of the Persian king?

France

Germany

United States

Britain
19 What political position had Marjane's grandfather held in the Shah's regime?

Director of the Hospital

Minister of Culture

Prime Minister

Prince
20 What political ideology did Marjane's grandfather become persuaded was right?

Democracy

Socialism

Communism

Secularism
21 What kind of torture did Marjane's grandfather undergo when arrested?

water cell

scaldings

whipping

psychological torture
22 After her grandfather was arrested, why did Marjane's grandmother often boil water on the stove?

to keep away the flies

to heat the house

to make the neighbors think they had food

to purify the water
23 Whose tomb does the Shah of Iran visit?

Cyrus the Great

Nebuchadnezzar

Napoleon

The Prince of Persia
24 One day, Marjane's father does not come home because he is doing what activity?

throwing rocks at soldiers

plotting to overthrow the Shah's regime

taking photographs of the demonstrations

volunteering at the local hospital
25 At the hospital, a crowd calls a dead old man a martyr, but the man's widow says that he really died from what disease?

malaria

rheumatism

yellow fever

cancer

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