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100
What item is given to boys along with the promise that they will get into heaven as long as they keep it with them?

A) a silver key 

B) a gold key 

C) s brass key 

D) a key lime pie

What is a gold key?
100
At the age of six Marji was already sure she was what?

A) A revolutionist 

B) A singer

C) A prophet

D) A conformist 

What is a prophet?
100
Tehran was attacked with scud missiles.

True 

False

What is true?
100

This part of a comic contains illustrations, captions and dialogue to deliver the story of a comic. A comic book is made up of a collection of these.

What are panels?
100

What did her father hide in his coat at the airport on his way back from turkey?

What are posters (iron maiden and kim wilde)


200
What garment is a symbol of how women's rights are oppressed in Iran?

A) Denim jacket 

B) The veil

C) The gold key 

D) Spanx

What is a veil?
200
What kind of torture did Marjanes grandfather undergo when arrested?

A) Scaldings 

B) Water cell

C) Psychological torture 

D) Whipping

What is a water cell?
200
Who supplied the Iranians and Iraqis with chemical weapons?

A) Germans 

B) Americans 

C) Israel

D) Egypt

Who are the Germans?
200

This area is the space between panels.

What is the gutter?
200

What change occurred between boys and girls in school when the revolution started?

They were separated.

300
Marjane is seen sharing a smoke with whom multiple time during the story?

A) Her dad 

B) Her grandma 

C) Her mother

D) The Marlboro man

Who is her mother?
300
What game does Marjane want to play with her parents when they return from the political rally's?

A) Monopoly 

B) Battleship 

C) Life 

D) Risk

What is monopoly?
300
What year did the Islamic Revolution take place?

A) 1980

B) 1983

C) 1976

D) 1979

When is 1979?
300

Dialogue and thoughts are enclosed in these.

What are thought/speech bubbles?

300

who/what plays a crutial role in Marjanes childhood? (hint- her views change about this "person" through out the novel)

Who is god?
400
Marjane associates which of the following with major events in coming of age story?

A) Cigarettes

B) Marijuana 

C) Bombs 

D) Bras

What are cigarettes?
400
In "The Heroes" What we're Jari and Shakiba arrested for being?

A) Islamic

B) Terrorist 

C) Helping the Shah to escape 

D) Communists

What is a communist?
400
What embassy is occupied when the war starts?

A) United States 

B) Egypt

C) Israel 

D) Iraq

Who is the United States?
400

Two facing pages in a printed book.

What is a spread?
400

What happened to her neighbors house while she was out buying jeans?

what is bombed?
500
Marjane says "year by year women were winning an eighth of an inch of           and losing an eighth of an inch of veil."

A) Height 

B) Hair

C) Ankle 

D) Cleavage 

What is hair?
500
In "The Bicycle" what was burned down with people locked inside?

A) A university 

B) A cinema

C) A block of houses 

D) A jail

What is a cinema?
500

What is the capital of Iran and name it's significance.

Tehran, it is where the narrator/author grew up.


500

This is the term for when an image runs of the page eliminating the gutter.

What is Bleed?

500

How many children did the narrators grandmother have?

Six.