He was young Marjane's hero because he was the first family member she discovered who spent time in prison for his revolutionary activities in Azerbaijan.
Who is Uncle Anoosh?
100
Individuals or works that are innovative, experimental, and often challenging to traditional artistic conventions.
What is an Avant-garde?
100
True or False?
Marjane's dad had five brothers.
What is True?
100
This country engaged in a long and arduous war with Iran causing a disruption in Marjane's family life.
What is Iraq?
200
How old was Marjane when the book first started?
What is 10 years old?
200
Uncle Taher suffered his third heart attack after this event.
What is after a grenade was thrown at a neighbor's home?
200
What is a Coup d'etat?
What is a sudden attempt by a small group of people to take over the governemnt usually through violence? (or variation on it)
200
True or False?
Marjane's parents send her to Amsterdam at the end of the story.
What is False? (Austria)
200
Marjane was exposed to the brutal details of war when these men visited her home after their release from prison. (Two possible answers)
What is Siamak? or Who is Mohsen?
300
What are the two posters (who is on them) that Marjane gets form her parents trip to Turkey?
What are Iron Maiden and Kim Wilde?
300
These characters must dispose of the alcohol in the house when the family is followed home from a party by the Guardians of the Revolution.
Who are Marjane and her grandmother?
300
What is a large cloth worn as a combination of a head covery, a veil and a shawl called?
What is a Chador?
300
True or False?
Mohsen had a daughter named Laly.
What is False? (Siamak had a daughter named Laly)
300
This group approached Marjane on the street and threatened to take her into custody for wearing materialistic, Westernized clothing, wearing a Michael Jackson pin and wearing her head scarf incorrectly.
What is Guardians of the Revolution?
400
Name the three reasons why Marjane wants to be a prophet when she grows up?
What are because her maid didn't eat with her, her father had a Cadillac and her grandmother's knees always ached?
400
This member of the Satrapi's household staff was distressed over her young son's recruitment into the army.
Who is Nasrine? or Who is the maid?
400
What is a Putsch?
What is a secretly plotted and suddenly executed attempt to overthrow the government? (or variation on that)
400
True or False?
Mehri (the maid) was nine years old when she was given to Marjane's family.
What is False? (eight years old)
400
Marjane performed this act of defiance after her mother scolded her when she skipped school.
What is smoking a cigarette?
500
What year were the Nikes from that Marjane's parents brought back from Turkey?
What is 1983?
500
On the night before Marji's learns she will be leaving Iran she thought of this young, Communist woman who was killed by the government. Marji decided that this woman was a true martyr.
Who is Niloufar?
500
What is an espadrille?
What is a light canvas shoe with a plaited fiber sole? (or variation on that)
500
True or False?
Marjane was sitting on the far right of the class photo taken in 1980, shown on the first page.
What is False? (Far left)
500
Marjane was expelled from two schools and was sent to live outside of Iran after these two offenses.
What is Refusing to turn over jewellry to one principal and arguing with a teacher about the Iranian government?