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

2. Who was Nafisi's father?
(a) A famous author.
(b) The youngest mayor of Tehran in pre-revolutionary Iran.
(c) A troubled businessman.
(d) The director of a high school in Switzerland.

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. Why is Nafisi worried about her students?
(a) Because her students show no signs of being individuals.
(b) She is worried that they cannot afford the flowers she expects them to bring.
(c) Because the students are not interested in reading and discussing literature.
(d) She is concerned that they will be punished by their families for attending her class.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why was Nafisi's father arrested?

4. How does Nafisi refer to her male acquaintance?

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

(see the answer key)

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