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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 10.

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 memory of what was real in the past and a sense of imagination about future possibilities.
(c) Goals for the present government.
(d) The use of literature as a teaching tool.

2. How does Nafisi select her students for the small study group?
(a) She chooses students who can afford to pay her on a regular basis.
(b) She chooses students who are loners or outsiders.
(c) She chooses students who dislike the liberal qualities of the university.
(d) She chooses students who earn good grades in all their classes.

3. What does Nafisi believe is the main point of "Lolita"?
(a) It is a morality tale about what happens to girls who disobey.
(b) It is a demonstration of religious fanaticism.
(c) It is an example of how to achieve perfection.
(d) It is a critique of what occurs in totalitarian systems.

4. What would happen if the "Blood of God" militia saw a girl with nail polish or a strand of loose hair?
(a) The militia would not permit the girl to continue studying literature.
(b) The girl would be escorted home, where her family would forbid her to go out of the house unescorted.
(c) The girl would be punished and humiliated for violating laws.
(d) The girl would be beheaded as an example of an evil woman.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nafisi introduce the reader to the students in her class?

2. What is the first work Nafisi and her students in the study group discuss?

3. Why is Nabokov's "Invitation to a Beheading" the inspiration for Nafisi to form the study group?

4. Why does Nafisi's apartment lack matching furniture and fancy window dressings?

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

(see the answer key)

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