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Facts about Marjane
Characters
Vocabulary
True or False
Plot
100
What was Marjane's favorite comic book?
What is Dialectical Materialism?
100
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
What are a group of people who develop new and often surprising ideas?
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

Marji wanted to be a prophet for these reasons. Name two. 

What are: 1. Their maid did not eat with the family.

2. Her father drove a Cadillac.

3. Her grandmother's knees ached.

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 cover, a veil and a shawl called?

What is a chador? or hijab?

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
This is the religion that Marji believed in before giving up her faith. 

What is Zoroastrianism? 

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

Out of the people in Marji's family, this person is the most sanctimonious, as seen in Ch. 5. 

Who is Marji's dad, Ebi?

400

True or False?Marji stops believing in God because she becomes communist. 

What is False? It is because of Uncle Anoosh's death

400
Marjane performed this act of defiance after her mother scolded her when she skipped school.
What is smoking a cigarette?
500

In the chapter titled, "The F-14s" we learn this character trait about Marji. 

What is that she is patriotic?

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
At the beginning of the book Marji is referred to as "my celestial light." Name a synonym for celestial. 

What is heavenly?

500

True or False?Marji's dad was arrested once during the protests against the Shah. 

What is True? But he escaped 

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?