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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. Why do the students meet in Nafisi's apartment?
(a) To plan ways to join the revolution.
(b) To study and discuss literature.
(c) To learn about religious freedom.
(d) To escape the University of Tehran.

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

3. Where does Nafisi write her class notes?
(a) Small scraps of paper.
(b) Pocket calendars.
(c) Big diaries.
(d) Lined paper tablets.

4. Why does Nafisi remind the students of Nabokov?
(a) Because Nabokov symbolizes the kind of writer that the students want be become.
(b) Because Nabokov wrote in an unsettled environment like the setting the students are in.
(c) Nabokov believed that a totalitarian government offered students the chance to be free.
(d) Nabokov is Nafisi's favorite author.

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) 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nafisi return to the two photographs of her students in Chapter 7?

2. How does Nafisi introduce the reader to the students in her class?

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

4. Why is Mashid jailed?

5. How does Nafisi structure the first class sessions?

(see the answer key)

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