This author’s filmography includes Chicken with Plums, in which a musician decides to stay in bed until he dies after his violin is broken. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author who recounted leaving Iran after the execution of her uncle Anoosh in Persepolis.
ANSWER: Marjane Satrapi (“mar-ZHAHN sah-TRA-pee”)
[10e] Satrapi’s Persepolis is written in this form. This form was also used for Art Spiegelman’s Maus (“mouse”), which places some text in speech bubbles.
ANSWER: comic books [or graphic novels]
[10h] In Persepolis, Marjane discusses dialectical materialism with this character at night. Marjane tops her class during an exam after this character tells her that the essay will be about Montesquieu (“mon-TESK-ee-oo”).
ANSWER: God [or Allah]
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