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

2. Why does the male student have to meet with Nafisi separately?
(a) His schedule does not permit him to meet with the female students.
(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) The female students do not like having a male student in their class.

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

4. What object does Nafisi refer to when she first describes the students in her study group?
(a) A photograph.
(b) Tehran.
(c) Her apartment.
(d) A veil.

5. Where is Nafisi's apartment located?
(a) Across from an ex-American hospital.
(b) On the campus of the University of Tehran.
(c) In the middle of a mountain range.
(d) Above a restaurant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Ministry of Education officials ask the faculty at Nafisi's school if they thought they were in Switzerland?

2. Why are Nafisi's students like ghosts when they are walking through the streets of Tehran?

3. What symbol does Nafisi think of when she thinks of Lolita?

4. What is the first assignment for the students in the study group?

5. Why do the students meet in Nafisi's apartment?

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