1. Nassrin describes herself as being in the middle of what for her whole life?
(a) In the middle of tradition and change.
(b) In the middle of fiction and reality.
(c) In the middle of insubordination and obedience.
(d) In the middle of safety and danger.

2. Why do Ministry of Education officials ask the faculty at Nafisi's school if they thought they were in Switzerland?
(a) Because Switzerland has schools with conservative values just like the conservative values of the University of Tehran.
(b) Because the officials believe the University of Tehran is too conservative and should be more like schools in Switzerland.
(c) Because the University of Tehran is the most liberal campus in Iran, and Switzerland is the byword for Western lax and decadent behavior.
(d) Because Switzerland is the model for the type of government the Ministry of Education is trying to establish.

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

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

5. Why is Nabokov's "Invitation to a Beheading" the inspiration for Nafisi to form the study group?
(a) Nabokov wrote about conditions in post-revolutionary Iran.
(b) Nafisi is inspired by Nabokov's characters who conform to totalitarian regimes.
(c) Nafisi sees connections between Nabokov's world and post-revolutionary Iran.
(d) Nabokov symbolizes the banality of Western thought.