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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapters 12 - 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Mrs. Rezvan?
(a) One of Nafisi's former students.
(b) The wife of one of Nafisi's former students.
(c) A colleague of one of Nafisi's former students, who tries to get Nafisi to return to teaching.
(d) The mother of one of Nafisi's former students, who tries to get Nafisi to start a study group.

2. Why is Negar upset?
(a) She is being taken to jail for insubordination.
(b) She is not allowed to join Nafisi's literature discussions.
(c) Her friendship bracelet has been taken away at school.
(d) She is not allowed to console a friend who had been poorly treated at school.

3. Why does the professor ask Nima if his wife brainwashed him?
(a) Because the professor valued the opinions of women more than the opinions of men.
(b) Because the professor believed Nima's wife was a better student.
(c) Because Nima and his wife both voted against the professor's views.
(d) Because Nima always relied on his wife to answer questions.

4. Who does Nafisi meet with in Part 3, Chapter 10?
(a) Local religious leaders.
(b) Officials at a local university.
(c) Her study group.
(d) The magician.

5. How did Nafisi learn of her father's arrest?
(a) She was pulled out of her sophomore class in Switzerland.
(b) The government came to her house.
(c) Her father told her many years later.
(d) She heard her mother telling her sister.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why are Nafisi's students like ghosts when they are walking through the streets of Tehran?

3. What type of author do the students seem most interested in studying?

4. In Part 2, Chapter 24, why do the demonstrators move toward the hospital?

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

(see the answer key)

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