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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the professor ask Nima if his wife brainwashed him?
(a) Because Nima and his wife both voted against the professor's views.
(b) Because the professor valued the opinions of women more than the opinions of men.
(c) Because the professor believed Nima's wife was a better student.
(d) Because Nima always relied on his wife to answer questions.

2. What does Nafisi consider to be the first lesson in democracy?
(a) All individuals have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
(b) All individuals have the right to dress as they please.
(c) All individuals have the right to vote for their own leaders.
(d) All individuals have the right to freedom of speech.

3. How does Nafisi feel about revealing herself in class?
(a) As if she were having her insides pulled out.
(b) As if she were being forced to examine herself.
(c) As if she were surrounded by her best friends.
(d) As if she were being undressed in front of strangers.

4. Why is Nafisi nervous about the intruders being in her house?
(a) She has a forbidden satellite dish.
(b) She believes her neighbor will blame her for whatever happens.
(c) She hasn't cleaned the house for a religious celebration.
(d) She has young children who are afraid of guns.

5. What does Nassrin's mother teach her daughter?
(a) Arabic.
(b) French.
(c) English.
(d) German.

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

7. Who is the villain in "Lolita"?
(a) Humbert.
(b) Lolita.
(c) The individual with the imaginative mind.
(d) The director of the summer camp.

8. How does the professor solve problems of literary criticism?
(a) By asking the class to vote on matters of interpretation.
(b) By finding critical essays that support his viewpoint.
(c) By telling students that literary criticism is not important.
(d) By talking to his colleagues on the University faculty.

9. Why does Nafisi remind the students of Nabokov?
(a) Nabokov is Nafisi's favorite author.
(b) Because Nabokov symbolizes the kind of writer that the students want be become.
(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.

10. 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 earn good grades in all their classes.
(c) She chooses students who are loners or outsiders.
(d) She chooses students who dislike the liberal qualities of the university.

11. How did Nafisi learn of her father's arrest?
(a) She heard her mother telling her sister.
(b) She was pulled out of her sophomore class in Switzerland.
(c) The government came to her house.
(d) Her father told her many years later.

12. Why did Nabokov say that every great novel is a fairy tale?
(a) Even though fairy tales have monsters, good ultimately wins over evil.
(b) All novels are stories with imaginary characters like fairy tales.
(c) Because all good novelists begin to write after reading fairy tales.
(d) Fairy tales and novels both demonstrate the beauty of the natural world.

13. What does Nafisi share with her male acquaintance in Chapter 16?
(a) A ham sandwich.
(b) A car ride.
(c) An ice cream cone.
(d) A dinner party.

14. Why is Mashid jailed?
(a) Because people find out she was studying literature.
(b) Because she is associated with a dissident organization.
(c) Because she tells her parents she was translating Islamic texts into English.
(d) Because she steals flowers.

15. Where is Nafisi's apartment located?
(a) On the campus of the University of Tehran.
(b) Across from an ex-American hospital.
(c) Above a restaurant.
(d) In the middle of a mountain range.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object becomes popular in Iran?

2. Why does the literature professor dislike Manna and Nima?

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

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

5. Where do the intruders to Nafisi's house go once they are in her house?

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