1. Why are Nafisi's students like ghosts when they are walking through the streets of Tehran?
(a) They hope to be invisible to the militia and arrive at their destination without confrontation.
(b) Their black clothes hide them when they are walking at night.
(c) Because they wear a veil, their skin is very white like a ghost.
(d) They have learned to walk with a gliding motion, barely touching the ground.

2. What are the biggest threats to an idealized vision of an individual or a country?
(a) The use of literature as a teaching tool.
(b) The memory of what was real in the past and a sense of imagination about future possibilities.
(c) Interactions between men and women.
(d) Goals for the present government.

3. Why do Ministry of Education officials ask the faculty at Nafisi's school if they thought they were in Switzerland?
(a) Because the University of Tehran is the most liberal campus in Iran, and Switzerland is the byword for Western lax and decadent behavior.
(b) Because Switzerland is the model for the type of government the Ministry of Education is trying to establish.
(c) Because Switzerland has schools with conservative values just like the conservative values of the University of Tehran.
(d) Because the officials believe the University of Tehran is too conservative and should be more like schools in Switzerland.

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

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