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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the biggest threats to an idealized vision of an individual or a country?
(a) Interactions between men and women.
(b) The use of literature as a teaching tool.
(c) The memory of what was real in the past and a sense of imagination about future possibilities.
(d) Goals for the present government.

2. Who was Nafisi's father?
(a) A famous author.
(b) A troubled businessman.
(c) The director of a high school in Switzerland.
(d) The youngest mayor of Tehran in pre-revolutionary Iran.

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

4. What scene opens Chapter 12?
(a) The members of the class arriving at Nafisi's house.
(b) The class sitting around a table in Nafisi's apartment.
(c) Nafisi search for books in a bookstore.
(d) Nafisi teaching a class at the University.

5. In Chapter 14, what question does Mitra ask about "Lolita"?
(a) Why do people find pleasure in reading such a horrible story?
(b) Why are we reading this novel?
(c) Why does Humbert try to control Lolita?
(d) Why does Lolita continue to stay with Humbert?

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 9, what does Nafisi do to answer Yassi's question?

2. Why do Ministry of Education officials ask the faculty at Nafisi's school if they thought they were in Switzerland?

3. Why are Nafisi's students like ghosts when they are walking through the streets of Tehran?

4. What is the main point of Chapter 12?

5. How do the students get enough copies of "Lolita" to study?

(see the answer key)

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