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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapters 1 - 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the narrator at the beginning of the first chapter in Part II?
(a) At the University of Tehran.
(b) At the Tehran airport.
(c) In graduate school in the United States.
(d) In her apartment in Tehran.

2. In Chapter 9, what does Nafisi do to answer Yassi's question?
(a) Nafisi tells Yassi to ask her parents for assistance.
(b) Nafisi uses literature as a point of reference for her answer.
(c) Nafisi tells Yassi that she should not get married while she is young.
(d) Nafisi shows Yassi pictures of her childhood.

3. Who are the Mujahedeen?
(a) A group called the Party of Allah.
(b) The members of a radical student organization at the University of Tehran.
(c) A radical religious organization that claims to be the spiritual and political heir of the deceased Ayatollah Taleghani.
(d) The leaders of the University of Tehran.

4. In Chapter 9, what does Yassi ask Nafisi ?
(a) Yassi asks if she should remain at the University of Tehran.
(b) Yassi asks if she is like Lolita.
(c) Yassi asks if she can live with Nafisi.
(d) Yassi asks if she should go to America.

5. Chapter 12 takes place during which season?
(a) Fall.
(b) Winter.
(c) Summer.
(d) Spring.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the relationship between Nafisi and her first husband?

4. What does Nassrin's mother teach her daughter?

5. In Chapter 15, how does the study group define a villain?

(see the answer key)

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