Marji, Marji, Marjane
Historical Context
Minor Characters
Vocabulary Terms and Concepts
Finish this quotation!
Grab Bag Mix
100
Before she's too embarrassed to admit it, this is the "career" that Marji wanted to be as a young girl.
prophet
100
He was the Democratic American president at the beginning of the Iranian Revolution that likely lost his second election because of the Iranian Hostage Crisis.
Jimmy Carter
100
Name Marji's favorite uncle and explain for what he is ultimately executed.
Uncle Anoosh ; for being a "Russian spy."
100
This is "the quality of being innocent; lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment."
Naivete (N)
100
Before he's executed, Uncle Anoosh calls Marji "the ___ of my life..." (Satrapi 69).
star
100
This was the capital city of Ancient Persia.
Persepolis
200
This is where Marji's parents send her at the end of the novel.
(Vienna,) Austria
200
What was the name of the president and country that attacked Iran in 1980 when they were already internally weakend by internal revolutions?
Saddam Hussien; Iraq
200
At what point does this character give Marji the following advice: "Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself" (Satrapi 150).
Grandma ; right before Marji is about to leave Iran
200
What is "the moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury"?
Decadance (N)
200
"Then came ____: the year it became obligatory to wear the veil" (Satrapi 3).
1980
200
This graphic device features the stark difference between light (brightness) and dark.
High contrast
300
Provide two specific examples of events that Marji mimicked / "played" / copied as she's trying to understand the Iranian Revolution.
--Staying in the bath for hours like her grandpa --torturing Ramin with nails --shoving garbage in her friend's mouths --twisting her friends' arms --marching like revolutionaries
300
In 1979, this man is exiled to what country, ultimately dying of what, and leading to a political vacuum and the rise of what form of government?
Mohammed Reza (The Shah) is exiled to Egypt. He dies of cancer, leading to the rise of an Islamic fundamentalist theocracy lead by Ayatollah Khomeini.
300
Ultimately how do Laly, her father Siamek, and mother escape from Iran while the political prisoners are again being targeted?
They escape hidden amongst a herd of sheep crossing the border.
300
Famously, list TWO (out of three) reasons why Marjane Satrapi uses patterns and repetition as a graphic device.
To express doom ; to give a feeling of foreverness ; to express lack of individuality.
300
Marji says, "On TV they say that ____ of the population voted for an Islamic Republic" (Satrapi 62).
99.99%
300
A propaganda tool, young, less affluent boys who fought in the war were given this item made of what material, guaranteeing them what?
Gold painted, plastic "Keys to Paradise"
400
Provide sufficient context around why Marji lies to her friends, telling them that she prays "10, 11, 12 times a day."
Upon the Ayatollah's Islamic Republic implementation of fundamentalist rules, her mom tells her that if anyone were to ask, that she should lie to them and pretend like she prays all the time.
400
After __ years and (approximately) ____ lives lost, this organization intercedes and ends the Iran/Iraq War.
8 years ; 1 million ; The United Nations
400
Name two reasons Mehri got in trouble with Marji's parents.
She had Marji write love letters to the neighbor boy. She took Marji to the violent Back Friday Protest.
400
Without looking, what is our class definition of CIVIC IDENTITY?
CIVIC IDENTITY comes in the forms of how we show up and engage in the structure, the culture, the improvement of the communities to which we belong.
400
Marji's mother states, “It is not for you and me to do ____” (Satrapi 46).
justice
400
The political prisoners, including Marji's grandpa, were tortured by the Shah's secret police and by the Guardians of the Revolution. Name three forms of torture they suffered.
kept in water cell; whipped with cables; burned with irons; finger nails pulled out; nerves poked on bottom of feet; putting out cigarettes on their backs
500
After Marji ditches school and she gets into a fight with her mother, for what two reasons does she start to feel sick while in the basement?
1) she smokes her first cigarette 2) she hates the thought that the war could have ended after two years but that it's carried out so that the Ayatollah didn't lose control
500
What are THREE rules or changes the new Islamic Republic (Ayatollah Khomeini) implements in Iran.
They closed the universities for two years. They force women to wear veils. They ban all things Western. They implement traditional Islamic law, including brutal punishments. Women and limited in career and educational opportunities.
500
Explain, with no less than THREE details, why Uncle Taher never got his final wish in life.
Uncle Taher wanted to see his son who went to Holland to avoid the war. He had three heart attacks because he was so sad and stressed and smoking. He needed a false passport to get an out-of-country surgery, but Khorso and Nilfour were persecuted by Guardians of the Revolution.
500
Explain why Marji’s parents think it is funny/naive that she wants to play THIS GAME after they returned from a protest against the Shah?
They think it's funny she wants to play MONOPOLY because in a monopoly a business tries to own everything (and they are protesting against the man who owns everything.)
500
"Misery! At the age that ____ _____ first went to ________ to study [chemistry], I'll probably have ____ children" (Satrapi 73).
Marie Curie ; France ; ten
500
List TWO reasons why the Iranian people wanted the Shah out of power.
-He was too influenced by the US and the UK -The economy was unfairly in favor of the US and UK's control of oil -He had a secret police force that brutalized people