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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. In Chapter 15, how does the study group define a villain?
(a) One who knowingly challenges the religious culture of the ruling party.
(b) One who bows to authority figures.
(c) One who lacks curiosity about other people, being only interested in his/her vision of other people.
(d) One who molests a child.

2. What is the main point of Chapter 12?
(a) To provide the reader with a sketch of the class meeting to discuss "Lolita."
(b) Copies of books are not readily available in Tehran.
(c) The students enjoy reading "Lolita."
(d) To provide the reader with an understanding of how "Lolita" was sold in Tehran.

3. What does Nafisi teach during her first semester as a professor at the University of Tehran?
(a) A large seminar using banned books.
(b) A small study group related to the works of Nabokov.
(c) A large seminar called Research.
(d) Classes in English as a Second Language.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What secret does Nassrin tell Nafisi?

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

5. What does Nassrin's mother's teaching symbolize?

(see the answer key)

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