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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. What does Nassrin's mother's teaching symbolize?
(a) An act of conformity to the prevailing government.
(b) A method of learning to speak another language.
(c) A way of revisiting her childhood in a foreign country.
(d) A type of rebellion by an otherwise domesticated wife and mother.

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

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

4. What secret does Nassrin tell Nafisi?
(a) She had been sexually abused by her youngest uncle.
(b) She had been married and divorced.
(c) She was leaving for America.
(d) She had left her family to work for an Islamist student group.

5. Who is Mike Gold?
(a) The chair of the English Department at the University of Tehran.
(b) Nafisi's first literature student at the University of Tehran.
(c) The editor of a radical literary journal and the subject of Nafisi's dissertation.
(d) Nafisi's first husband and a leader in the Iranian Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the class members take turns doing each week?

2. Why is Nafisi nervous about the intruders being in her house?

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

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

5. Where are Nafisi's children when Chapter 19 begins?

(see the answer key)

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