by BlastRoom
A whole-text review of events, characters, form, symbols, quotations, and themes in Persepolis.
#literature

40 questions
One question set, multiple game modes. Tap any game to see it in action. Not sure which to pick?
Answer to place stones and capture territory.
Outrun the snow together.
Earn blasts, then hunt the other team.
Answer to earn energy, then climb.

The class blasts through walls together.
Bid on mystery lots. Most money wins.
Sell tours. Nice, standard, or a total scam.
Answer, restock, and serve the rush.
More correct answers pulls the rope your way.
Answer, then shoot down the alien wave.
Answer, then tap to leap the frozen ridge.
Four moments from Persepolis: the veil at school, Anoosh's execution, the missile on the neighbors, Marji's flight to Vienna. Which comes first?
Which event occurs earliest in Marji's childhood political education?
After Anoosh tells Marji about exile, prison, and his family, what later happens to him?
Which event belongs to the Iran-Iraq War section before Marji is sent to Austria?
What turning point most directly leads Marji's parents to send her to Vienna?
In the Austria section, which happens before Marji returns to Iran?
After Marji comes back from Vienna, what major crisis comes before her university years?
Which event comes latest in the full memoir's sequence?
The grandmother appears at key moments and gives Marji plain advice the night before she leaves for Vienna. What role does she play for Marji?
Why does Anoosh matter so much to young Marji?
Marji's parents demonstrate, buy her forbidden music, and finally send her away. What does this pattern show?
What does Mehri's broken romance with the neighbor teach Marji?
In Austria, what does Lucia's family offer Marji during the holiday in Tyrol?
How does Marji's relationship with God change after Anoosh's execution?
What does Marji's marriage to Reza eventually reveal about her development?
Across the memoir, what does the veil most consistently symbolize?
Anoosh makes Marji a swan out of bread in prison. What does that object carry after his death?
When Marji smokes her first cigarette, what does she claim it means?
What do the plastic keys to paradise represent in the war chapters?
Kim Wilde tapes, Iron Maiden, denim, and Nike shoes appear as forbidden or risky objects. What motif do they build?
Why are the jasmine flowers in Marji's grandmother's bra a powerful recurring memory?
The memoir often draws God and Marx in Marji's imagination. What does that pairing show?
The line "The revolution is like a bicycle" is mainly what kind of figurative comparison?
Which description best defines Persepolis as a graphic memoir?
An adult artist draws the memoir, but many scenes stay close to Marji's childhood point of view. What does that double perspective do?
How do gutters between panels help tell the story?
Why does the memoir use short titled chapters such as episodes about family, school, war, and exile?
What is the effect of placing childish games or jokes near torture, executions, and bombings?
In Persepolis, what is a common difference between captions and speech balloons?
Which theme claim is best supported by the revolution's aftermath in the memoir?
Mehri's romance and the boys with keys to paradise both support which theme?
Parties, hidden alcohol, food shortages, and missile attacks together support which claim?
Marji's Vienna years, including denying her identity and later returning ill, develop which theme?
University dress codes and the art-school model controversy support which theme?
Grandfather's prison story, Anoosh's memories, and Marji's narration all support which idea?
When Marji denounces a teacher's lies about political prisoners, what theme does that moment support?
Marji plays at being a prophet early on and later challenges a teacher's political lies. What connects the scenes?
After reading Ali Ashraf Darvishian's stories about poor children, Marji says she finally understands why she felt ashamed to sit in her father's Cadillac. What has she realized?
Anoosh's bread swan and the grandmother's jasmine both show how the memoir uses small objects. What do they do?
The first school veil scene and the later university restrictions on drawing models connect most clearly through what concern?
Crack the passcode before the zombies get in.
Answer, then swat bugs for bonus points.
Race through questions at your own speed.
Same question on every screen. Fastest wins.

Pick a tile, answer, hit bonuses and steals.
Their Eyes Were Watching God: Chapters 11 to 20
25 questions