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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 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) Goals for the present government.
(c) Interactions between men and women.
(d) The use of literature as a teaching tool.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nafisi believe is the main point of "Lolita"?

2. What object does Nafisi refer to when she first describes the students in her study group?

3. Where is Nafisi's apartment located?

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

5. How does Nabokov's character Cincinnatus C. become a hero?

(see the answer key)

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