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

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

3. In "Lolita," how does Humbert attempt to gain the reader's sympathy?
(a) By blaming himself for all of Lolita's problems.
(b) By making Lolita seem highly desirable.
(c) By making Lolita seem undesirable.
(d) By always talking in the first person.

4. What secret does Nassrin tell Nafisi?
(a) She had been married and divorced.
(b) She was leaving for America.
(c) She had left her family to work for an Islamist student group.
(d) She had been sexually abused by her youngest uncle.

5. How does Nafisi's acquaintance describe her students?
(a) As "pretty women."
(b) As "good students."
(c) As "nice girls."
(d) As "fine people."

Short Answer Questions

1. What object does Nafisi refer to when she first describes the students in her study group?

2. Why is Nabokov's "Invitation to a Beheading" the inspiration for Nafisi to form the study group?

3. How does Nabokov's character Cincinnatus C. become a hero?

4. What does Nassrin's mother's teaching symbolize?

5. What type of author do the students seem most interested in studying?

(see the answer key)

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