1. How do the Iranian authorities view the country's past?
(a) The past is irrelevant to the leaders who want to establish a perfect Koranic society.
(b) Iran's past is considered important in the development of a perfect Koranic society.
(c) The Iranian leaders see the country's past as an example for other societies.
(d) Iran's past is used as a foundation for the development of a more modern society.

2. Why does the male student have to meet with Nafisi separately?
(a) The female students do not like having a male student in their class.
(b) Nafisi believes that male and female students learn differently.
(c) A group with men and women would arouse suspicion from the Islamist authorities.
(d) His schedule does not permit him to meet with the female students.

3. What would happen if the "Blood of God" militia saw a girl with nail polish or a strand of loose hair?
(a) The girl would be escorted home, where her family would forbid her to go out of the house unescorted.
(b) The girl would be beheaded as an example of an evil woman.
(c) The girl would be punished and humiliated for violating laws.
(d) The militia would not permit the girl to continue studying literature.

4. Why does Nafisi remind the students of Nabokov?
(a) Nabokov is Nafisi's favorite author.
(b) Because Nabokov symbolizes the kind of writer that the students want be become.
(c) Nabokov believed that a totalitarian government offered students the chance to be free.
(d) Because Nabokov wrote in an unsettled environment like the setting the students are in.

5. In Chapter 9, what does Nafisi do to answer Yassi's question?
(a) Nafisi shows Yassi pictures of her childhood.
(b) Nafisi tells Yassi to ask her parents for assistance.
(c) Nafisi uses literature as a point of reference for her answer.
(d) Nafisi tells Yassi that she should not get married while she is young.