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

2. How does Nabokov's character Cincinnatus C. become a hero?
(a) By fighting off his jailors.
(b) By refusing to be like everyone else.
(c) By rescuing those who are falsely imprisoned.
(d) By giving in to the requirements of the government.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Mashid jailed?

2. Where is Nafisi's apartment located?

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

4. Why is Nabokov's "Invitation to a Beheading" the inspiration for Nafisi to form the study group?

5. According to Nafisi, how is Yassi like Lolita?

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