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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapters 15 - 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What object becomes popular in Iran?
(a) A satellite dish.
(b) A mirror.
(c) Foreign language novels.
(d) The Great Gatsby.

2. What object does Nafisi refer to when she first describes the students in her study group?
(a) Her apartment.
(b) A photograph.
(c) Tehran.
(d) A veil.

3. What is the best definition of Nabokov's term "poshlust"?
(a) The ability to remain heroic in the midst of banality and extreme brutality.
(b) Empty rituals, false importance, and the reduction of reality to banality.
(c) Beauty in the midst of a brutal government regime.
(d) The use of reality to contrast with a system of barbaric ritual.

4. Why are Nafisi's students like ghosts when they are walking through the streets of Tehran?
(a) They hope to be invisible to the militia and arrive at their destination without confrontation.
(b) They have learned to walk with a gliding motion, barely touching the ground.
(c) Because they wear a veil, their skin is very white like a ghost.
(d) Their black clothes hide them when they are walking at night.

5. What type of author do the students seem most interested in studying?
(a) Authors who have female characters with strong opinions.
(b) "Non-revolutionary" authors such as Joyce, Nabokov, Woolf, and Austin.
(c) Authors who show the benefits of a religious society.
(d) "Revolutionary" authors who are tied to current political ideologies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would happen if the "Blood of God" militia saw a girl with nail polish or a strand of loose hair?

2. At the beginning of Chapter 18, what does Nafisi ask the reader to imagine?

3. How does Nafisi's acquaintance describe her students?

4. What are students at Nafisi's school regularly asked to do?

5. Why do the students meet in Nafisi's apartment?

(see the answer key)

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