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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 are students at Nafisi's school regularly asked to do?
(a) Bring in their friendship bracelets so that everyone has one to wear.
(b) Homework in the Persian language.
(c) Participate in a ritualistic stomping and burning the American flag while shouting "Death to America!"
(d) Attend funerals of martyrs for the Iranian Revolution.
2. How does the professor solve problems of literary criticism?
(a) By telling students that literary criticism is not important.
(b) By asking the class to vote on matters of interpretation.
(c) By talking to his colleagues on the University faculty.
(d) By finding critical essays that support his viewpoint.
3. 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) Nafisi believes that male and female students learn differently.
(d) The female students do not like having a male student in their class.
4. According to Nafisi, how is Yassi like Lolita?
(a) Both girls have been raped by older men.
(b) Both girls are reflections of Nafisi's personal experiences.
(c) Both girls have been deprived of the beauty of an ordinary, everyday life.
(d) Both girls have had their lives changed by reading books.
5. What does Nafisi believe is the main point of "Lolita"?
(a) It is an example of how to achieve perfection.
(b) It is a morality tale about what happens to girls who disobey.
(c) It is a demonstration of religious fanaticism.
(d) It is a critique of what occurs in totalitarian systems.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the study group find disturbing about the texts written by the Ayatollah Khomeini?
2. How does Nafisi structure the first class sessions?
3. What question does Nafisi ask at the beginning of her first class at the University of Tehran?
4. Why does Nafisi remind the students of Nabokov?
5. What object becomes popular in Iran?
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