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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main reason for Nafisi's resignation from the University of Tehran?
(a) The governance of the University is arbitrary.
(b) She wants to teach literature to smaller groups in private.
(c) She isn't able to do the type of scholarship the government required.
(d) The University of Tehran is too liberal.

2. What is the first assignment for the students in the study group?
(a) To relax and enjoy reading.
(b) To create a secret language using invented words.
(c) To analyze the types of women found in a piece of literature.
(d) To remember what Nafisi taught in her university classes.

3. Why does Nafisi's apartment lack matching furniture and fancy window dressings?
(a) She is too poor to afford material possessions.
(b) Her belongings were taken by revolutionaries.
(c) Her mother does not believe those items are appropriate for women.
(d) She is more concerned with literature and the inner world of knowledge.

4. Why is Nabokov's "Invitation to a Beheading" the inspiration for Nafisi to form the study group?
(a) Nabokov wrote about conditions in post-revolutionary Iran.
(b) Nafisi sees connections between Nabokov's world and post-revolutionary Iran.
(c) Nabokov symbolizes the banality of Western thought.
(d) Nafisi is inspired by Nabokov's characters who conform to totalitarian regimes.

5. What is the first work Nafisi and her students in the study group discuss?
(a) "Invitation to a Beheading."
(b) "Nabokov."
(c) "Lolita."
(d) "A Thousand and One Nights."

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where is Nafisi's apartment located?

4. In Chapter 9, what does Nafisi do to answer Yassi's question?

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

(see the answer key)

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