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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Nafisi, how is the character of Lolita like Nafisi's students?
(a) Lolita and Nafisi's students are props in someone else's quest to find the perfect image.
(b) Lolita and Nafisi's students are perfect images of the ideal woman in a totalitarian regime.
(c) Lolita and Nafisi's students both exhibit characteristics of heroism in dealing with their past.
(d) Lolita and Nafisi's students are both stuck in the past, unable to accept present conditions.

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

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 is Nafisi doing at the beginning of Chapter 11?
(a) Remembering her life as a child.
(b) Cleaning out her office at the University of Tehran.
(c) Looking over the class notes she kept from the study sessions.
(d) Looking at the photographs of the girls.

5. How does Nafisi structure the first class sessions?
(a) Like a lecture class, with the students taking notes on Nafisi's lectures.
(b) With the students leading discussion and choosing what to read.
(c) Like a traditional literature class, with Nafisi asking questions and leading discussions.
(d) With students reading "revolutionary" authors and discussing the parallels to contemporary society.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Iranian authorities view the country's past?

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

3. What are the biggest threats to an idealized vision of an individual or a country?

4. What does the class strive to do in their study of literature?

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

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