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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. How did Nafisi learn of her father's arrest?
(a) The government came to her house.
(b) She was pulled out of her sophomore class in Switzerland.
(c) She heard her mother telling her sister.
(d) Her father told her many years later.

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

3. Why are Nafisi's students like ghosts when they are walking through the streets of Tehran?
(a) Because they wear a veil, their skin is very white like a ghost.
(b) Their black clothes hide them when they are walking at night.
(c) They have learned to walk with a gliding motion, barely touching the ground.
(d) They hope to be invisible to the militia and arrive at their destination without confrontation.

4. Why is Mashid jailed?
(a) Because she tells her parents she was translating Islamic texts into English.
(b) Because people find out she was studying literature.
(c) Because she steals flowers.
(d) Because she is associated with a dissident organization.

5. What are the biggest threats to an idealized vision of an individual or a country?
(a) The memory of what was real in the past and a sense of imagination about future possibilities.
(b) Interactions between men and women.
(c) Goals for the present government.
(d) The use of literature as a teaching tool.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Nafisi worried about her students?

2. Why is it so difficult to find a copy of "Lolita" in Tehran?

3. What is the main point of Chapter 12?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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