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Marjane Satrapi, The Veil

Marjane Satrapi, The Veil

Read The Veil and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. According to the narrator, what change occurred in Iran in 1980?

A law was passed that allowed women to choose whether to wear the veil or not.

The veil became obligatory.

Girls were banished from all schools.

The government reopened all bilingual schools.

2. A German photographer took a picture of the narrator’s mother

crying and wearing her veil.

beating the narrator for public disobedience.

publicly demonstrating against the veil.

dying her hair to look like a Western woman.

3. When the narrator was six, what did she want to be when she grew up?

an accountant

a prophet

a doctor

a fashion designer

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the rules the narrator establishes in her holy book?

Everybody should wear the veil.

Everybody should have a car.

No old person should have to suffer.

All maids should eat at the table with the others.

5. With whom does the narrator discuss her plans every night?

Muhammad

God

her friend Minna

her grandfather