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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. Why does Nafisi remind the students of Nabokov?
(a) Because Nabokov wrote in an unsettled environment like the setting the students are in.
(b) Nabokov believed that a totalitarian government offered students the chance to be free.
(c) Because Nabokov symbolizes the kind of writer that the students want be become.
(d) Nabokov is Nafisi's favorite author.

2. Why was Nafisi's father arrested?
(a) He lost a great deal of money and could not pay the bills.
(b) He was not a member of the religious community.
(c) He challenged the educational system.
(d) He ignored directions from those in higher levels of government.

3. What teaching technique does Nafisi use in conjunction with the study of "The Great Gatsby"?
(a) The class puts the novel on trial, choosing people to play the roles of lawyers, judge, and jury.
(b) She teaches the novel using the Socratic method, which the students have never seen before.
(c) Nafisi asks the students to construct character sketches of the novel's main characters and compare the sketches to their own lives.
(d) She chooses students to lead the class discussion.

4. How does Nafisi introduce the reader to the students in her class?
(a) She gives each student a nickname based on their favorite book.
(b) She describes the students as a group so the reader understands the importance of community.
(c) She describes the arrival of each student on the first day of class.
(d) She shows the photograph that was taken of the group of students.

5. How do the students get enough copies of "Lolita" to study?
(a) They go to all of the second-hand bookstores until they find enough copies.
(b) They find one copy and pass it around until everyone has read it.
(c) They order copies through a local bookstore.
(d) They find one copy and photocopy it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the dream Nafisi and her students share?

2. Why is Nabokov's "Invitation to a Beheading" the inspiration for Nafisi to form the study group?

3. Why do Ministry of Education officials ask the faculty at Nafisi's school if they thought they were in Switzerland?

4. Why does Nafisi's apartment lack matching furniture and fancy window dressings?

5. In Chapter 20, Nafisi tells a story about what event that happened to Manna and Nima?

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