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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 teach her daughter?
(a) English.
(b) Arabic.
(c) German.
(d) French.

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

3. Who are the Mujahedeen?
(a) A group called the Party of Allah.
(b) The leaders of 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 members of a radical student organization at the University of Tehran.

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

5. Where are Nafisi's children when Chapter 19 begins?
(a) Jail.
(b) Tehran.
(c) Washington.
(d) At a restaurant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nafisi return to the two photographs of her students in Chapter 7?

2. What is Hizbollah?

3. What does Nafisi teach during her first semester as a professor at the University of Tehran?

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

5. Who demands entry into Nafisi's house?

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