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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are Nafisi's students like ghosts when they are walking through the streets of Tehran?
(a) They have learned to walk with a gliding motion, barely touching the ground.
(b) They hope to be invisible to the militia and arrive at their destination without confrontation.
(c) Their black clothes hide them when they are walking at night.
(d) Because they wear a veil, their skin is very white like a ghost.

2. What happens to the everyday lives of Nafisi and her students as a result of the secret class?
(a) Their everyday lives begin to invade the study group meetings.
(b) Their everyday lives become less tolerable.
(c) Their everyday lives take on the quality of fiction and make-believe.
(d) Their everyday lives are untouched by the secret class.

3. What is the dream Nafisi and her students share?
(a) The dreamer has escaped to America.
(b) The dreamer is not wearing a veil and is running away.
(c) The dreamer is able to purchase and read any book she wants.
(d) The dreamer is captured by the morality police.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Nafisi write her class notes?

2. What does Nafisi see reflected in the mirror?

3. What are students at Nafisi's school regularly asked to do?

4. The desire for what intangible object drives Nafisi's students?

5. What does Nassrin's mother teach her daughter?

(see the answer key)

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