Persepolis

Reading Check questions are designed for in-class review on key plot points or for quick verbal or written assessments. Multiple Choice and Short Answer Quizzes create ideal summative assessments, and collectively function to convey a sense of the work’s tone and themes.

Introduction-Chapter 4

Reading Check

1. What does the word “Iran” mean?

2. What happened in Iran in 1979?

3.Why did Marjane’s mother dye her hair?

4. Who was Zarathustra?

5. What are the four historical periods of Iran’s “2500 Years of Tyranny and Submission”?

6. What activity does Marjane beg to do with her parents in Chapter 2?

7. Why does Marjane’s mother go to the demonstration in Chapter 4?

Multiple Choice

1. Which of the following best describes Marjane and her classmates’ attitudes toward wearing the veil?

A) delight and excitement

B) confusion and dislike

C) fear and sadness

D) apathy and disgust

2. Which of the following best describes Marjane’s relationship with religion?

A) unshakeable since her family were fundamentalist Muslims

B) skeptical since she secretly did not believe in God

C) passionate since she believed she was the next prophet

D) unorthodox since she supports the reinstitution of Zoroastrianism

3. On the first page of Chapter 2, Marjane draws herself and her friends as soldiers: the first says, “I am Fidel,” the second says, “Today, my name is Che Guevara,” and the third says, “And I want to be Trotsky.