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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the dream Nafisi and her students share?
(a) The dreamer is able to purchase and read any book she wants.
(b) The dreamer has escaped to America.
(c) The dreamer is not wearing a veil and is running away.
(d) The dreamer is captured by the morality police.

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

4. Who was Nafisi's father?
(a) A famous author.
(b) The director of a high school in Switzerland.
(c) The youngest mayor of Tehran in pre-revolutionary Iran.
(d) A troubled businessman.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Nafisi, how is the character of Lolita like Nafisi's students?

2. What are the biggest threats to an idealized vision of an individual or a country?

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

4. Why was Nafisi's father arrested?

5. Why does Nafisi consider Humbert, Lolita's molester, such a frightening character?

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