1. Why does Nafisi return to the two photographs of her students in Chapter 7?
(a) She wants to show how her students are the same people regardless of how they dress.
(b) The photographs are evidence that literature is more powerful than clothing.
(c) The photographs show how much her students changed after they studied literature.
(d) The images show the contrast between the repression of the outside world and the individuality and freedom allowed in the apartment.

2. According to Nafisi, how is Yassi like Lolita?
(a) Both girls have been deprived of the beauty of an ordinary, everyday life.
(b) Both girls are reflections of Nafisi's personal experiences.
(c) Both girls have had their lives changed by reading books.
(d) Both girls have been raped by older men.

3. In Chapter 15, how does the study group define a villain?
(a) One who knowingly challenges the religious culture of the ruling party.
(b) One who molests a child.
(c) One who lacks curiosity about other people, being only interested in his/her vision of other people.
(d) One who bows to authority figures.

4. Who is Mike Gold?
(a) The chair of the English Department at the University of Tehran.
(b) Nafisi's first literature student at the University of Tehran.
(c) The editor of a radical literary journal and the subject of Nafisi's dissertation.
(d) Nafisi's first husband and a leader in the Iranian Revolution.

5. Where is the narrator at the beginning of the first chapter in Part II?
(a) At the University of Tehran.
(b) At the Tehran airport.
(c) In her apartment in Tehran.
(d) In graduate school in the United States.