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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapters 15 - 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why do the intruders want access to Nafisi's house?
(a) She is able to provide them with safety.
(b) They are searching for contraband.
(c) They want to see what was happening on her neighbor's property.
(d) They think she is selling and using drugs.

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

4. Why is Nafisi nervous about the intruders being in her house?
(a) She hasn't cleaned the house for a religious celebration.
(b) She believes her neighbor will blame her for whatever happens.
(c) She has young children who are afraid of guns.
(d) She has a forbidden satellite dish.

5. What does Nafisi teach during her first semester as a professor at the University of Tehran?
(a) A small study group related to the works of Nabokov.
(b) A large seminar using banned books.
(c) A large seminar called Research.
(d) Classes in English as a Second Language.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 2, Chapter 14, what do the police do to the women at the protest meeting?

2. Why does Nafisi consider Humbert, Lolita's molester, such a frightening character?

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

4. Where does Nafisi write her class notes?

5. What object becomes popular in Iran?

(see the answer key)

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