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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first work Nafisi and her students in the study group discuss?
(a) "Nabokov."
(b) "Invitation to a Beheading."
(c) "Lolita."
(d) "A Thousand and One Nights."

2. Why does Nafisi remind the students of Nabokov?
(a) Because Nabokov symbolizes the kind of writer that the students want be become.
(b) Nabokov is Nafisi's favorite author.
(c) Because Nabokov wrote in an unsettled environment like the setting the students are in.
(d) Nabokov believed that a totalitarian government offered students the chance to be free.

3. Why is Nabokov's "Invitation to a Beheading" the inspiration for Nafisi to form the study group?
(a) Nabokov wrote about conditions in post-revolutionary Iran.
(b) Nafisi is inspired by Nabokov's characters who conform to totalitarian regimes.
(c) Nabokov symbolizes the banality of Western thought.
(d) Nafisi sees connections between Nabokov's world and post-revolutionary Iran.

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

5. What is the first assignment for the students in the study group?
(a) To analyze the types of women found in a piece of literature.
(b) To relax and enjoy reading.
(c) To remember what Nafisi taught in her university classes.
(d) To create a secret language using invented words.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 12 takes place during which season?

2. Why is Nafisi worried about her students?

3. Why does the male student have to meet with Nafisi separately?

4. Why does Nafisi consider Humbert, Lolita's molester, such a frightening character?

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

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