Marji, Marji, Marji
What is the name of the author and artist of Persepolis?
Marjane Satrapi
In what year was the Shah exiled from Iran?
1979
In what year did the veil beomce obligatory in Iran?
1980
Ultimately, the US denies entry for the exiled Shah. To what country does he ulimatley go and die?
+100 what did the Shah take in a bottle with him?
Egypt
+100: Iranian soil
When she's very young and naive, Marji wants to be this "career" to make the world a better place.
a prophet
The name of the Shah's secret police.
+100 The name of Marji's friend whose father was in the secret police.
The Savak
+100: Ramin
DEFINITION: moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury.
Decadance (N)
In terms of the Ancient Persian Empire, Persepolis was...
the capitol city
Marjane Satrapi uses this graphic devices to express lack of individality, doom, and a feeling of foreverness.
patterns / repetition
How does Marji make Laly cry? What are 2 reasons Marji might have been motivated to be insensitive.
she tells her that her dad isn't on a trip, that he's really dead; naivete, jealousy
What was the name of Marji's maid and why did the parents slap her?
Mehri; she took Marji to the Black Friday Protest
List 5 forms of torture experienced by those imprisoned under the Shah.
-burnt with an iron, cigarrettes; dismembered; whipped with cables; nails pulled off;
Using our class definition, define "civic identity."
Civic Identity comes in the forms of how we show up for and engage in the structure, the culture, and the improvement of the communities to which we belong.