Persepolis History
Marjane as a Child
Marjane as an Adult
Literary Influences
Life Challenges
100
Where was Persepolis originally published?
What is France
100
What kind of family did Marjane come from?
What is higher class, higher educated, rich family
100
Why did Marjane return to Iran?
What is to study visual communication
100
Why were Marjane's parents worried for her actions?
What is Marjane was strong willed and rambunctious and had capability to break the rules made for women
100
What did Marjane constantly struggle with?
What is her identity and sense of God
200
When was the novel introduced to America?
What is 2003
200
Who influenced her interest in reform as a child?
What is her parents
200
What is Marjane's husbands name?
What is Reza
200
Where was Marjane sent away to in 1983?
What is Vienna, Austria to study at a French high school
200
Why was she so against restraints?
What is the way she was raised and the formation of her own ideas, especially when she lived outside of Iran
300
What was occuring in America around the time the novel was released?
What is 9/11 and the start of the Iraq war
300
What is Marjane constantly in search of?
What is her identity
300
Why did she choose to divorce him?
What is to break free of suppression
300
What other languages besides Persian did Marjane learn and can speak fluently? Name at least 3
What is French, English, Swedish, Italian, and German
300
Instead of continuing to be suppressed, Marjane did....
What is divorce her husband, moved out of Iran to Paris and wrote her novels describing the life she lived
400
What does the title "Persepolis" mean?
What is Persian city
400
What kind of person could Marjane be described as?
What is she relies on her parents, but is constantly presenting her own ideas and thoughts
400
What was the man's name who influenced her to write Persepolis?
What is Christophe Blain
400
What language was Persepolis translated from?
What is French
500
What influenced Marjane to create Persepolis?
What is her experience in Paris and other comic book artists
500
What was the countries atmosphere when Marjane was a child?
What is the atmosphere was constantly changing and being moved around, aspects of her life were being shifted and taken away and there was a revolution occurring around her.
500
What age was Marjane married and what age was she divorced?
What is 21 and 25
500
How does the Western culture influence the novel?
What is installation of a Republic, short skirts and suits seen in the novel, richer material items
500
In what ways did the Revolution negitively impact her life?
What is (up to discretion of the proctor)