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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What scene opens Chapter 12?
(a) The members of the class arriving at Nafisi's house.
(b) Nafisi teaching a class at the University.
(c) The class sitting around a table in Nafisi's apartment.
(d) Nafisi search for books in a bookstore.

2. What does Nassrin's mother's teaching symbolize?
(a) An act of conformity to the prevailing government.
(b) A method of learning to speak another language.
(c) A way of revisiting her childhood in a foreign country.
(d) A type of rebellion by an otherwise domesticated wife and mother.

3. Chapter 15 presents a clear parallel between the character of Humbert and which group of people?
(a) The students in Nafisi's class.
(b) The parents of the students in Nafisi's class.
(c) The mullahs of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
(d) The men who the students are related to.

4. Why does the male student have to meet with Nafisi separately?
(a) The female students do not like having a male student in their class.
(b) Nafisi believes that male and female students learn differently.
(c) A group with men and women would arouse suspicion from the Islamist authorities.
(d) His schedule does not permit him to meet with the female students.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Lolita," how does Humbert attempt to gain the reader's sympathy?

3. In Chapter 15, how does the study group define a villain?

4. Why does Nafisi's acquaintance refuse to meet with her students?

5. Why does Nafisi remind the students of Nabokov?

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