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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. What does Nafisi see reflected in the mirror?
(a) Mountains.
(b) A hospital.
(c) Her students.
(d) Her husband.

2. What do the class members take turns doing each week?
(a) They take turns reading a published copy of "Lolita."
(b) They take turns telling their private stories.
(c) They take turns providing pastry for breaks.
(d) They take turns leading the group discussion.

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

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

5. 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) His schedule does not permit him to meet with the female students.
(c) Nafisi believes that male and female students learn differently.
(d) The female students do not like having a male student in their class.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is Nafisi's apartment located?

3. Why is it so difficult to find a copy of "Lolita" in Tehran?

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

5. What scene opens Chapter 12?

(see the answer key)

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