Until the law was changed in 2005, what was the minimum voting age for national elections in Iran?
a. Ten
b. Twelve
c. Fifteen
d. Eighteen
e. Twenty-one
Q. 2Understanding political culture in Iran has been difficult over the past thirty years because
a. researchers have not been allowed to do field research in the country.
b. few scholars understand the Persian language.
c. Iran is the most geographically isolated country in the world.
d. the ongoing war between Iran and Iraq.
e. the Western sanctions against Iran have destroyed Iranian culture.
Q. 3The Green Movement is described as a new kind of social movement because of the prominent role played by what?
a. The military as supporters of the Movement
b. Oil companies who funded protests against the regime
c. Islam as the central issue in question
d. Women as leader of the movement
e. Social media as a means of organizing and informing
Q. 4Iranians took to the streets in June 2009 to protest
a. economic conditions.
b. Sunni versus Shi'a violence.
c. presidential election results.
d. U.S. foreign policy.
e. construction of nuclear power plants.
Q. 5The basij is
a. a group of influential clerics that determine election law.
b. a semi-legal group of vigilantes acting on behalf of the government.
c. the leading human rights organization in Iran.
d. the student-led group that took control of the U.S. embassy in 1979.
e. the middle-class merchants supporting economic reform.
Q. 6Serving as president of Iran from 1997 to 2005, __________ was one of the most pro-reform leaders in post-1979 Iranian history.
a. Mir Mousavi
b. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
c. Mohammad Khatami.
d. Hashemi Rafsanjani.
e. Reza Shah
Q. 7Rafsanjani's first term as president (19891997) was marked by
a. pragmatic economic reforms.
b. a dramatic thaw in relations with the United States.
c. political repression greater than that under Khomeini.
d. widespread secularization of politics.
e. attempts to normalize relations with the new government in Russia.
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