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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapters 23 - 31.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) They hope to be invisible to the militia and arrive at their destination without confrontation.
(c) They have learned to walk with a gliding motion, barely touching the ground.
(d) Their black clothes hide them when they are walking at night.

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

4. In Part 2, Chapter 14, what do the police do to the women at the protest meeting?
(a) The police push the women with the butts of their guns, and order them to go home.
(b) The police arrest the women and take them all to jail.
(c) The police stand off to one side and watch the event without participating.
(d) The police protect the women who come to protest.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does the literature professor dislike Manna and Nima?

3. Which character is the main subject of Part 3, Chapter 27?

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

5. In Chapter 9, what does Yassi ask Nafisi ?

(see the answer key)

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