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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. How does the class study of "The Great Gatsby" affect Nafisi?
(a) She discovers that she loves teaching revolutionary novels.
(b) She becomes sad, because her students do not enjoy the novel.
(c) She gains insight into her feelings and desires about her work and the meaning of literature in her life.
(d) She learns that she is really an American, not an Iranian.

2. What does the study group find disturbing about the texts written by the Ayatollah Khomeini?
(a) The texts contain blasphemy, which is against the laws of morality.
(b) The texts are taken seriously by rulers of the country, even though they are absurd.
(c) Manna knew they had been translated.
(d) Nassrin had read them and was talking about their contents publicly.

3. When the intruders enter Nafisi's house, what happens?
(a) There is a gun battle with Nafisi's neighbor.
(b) They take her children away.
(c) They catch Nafisi and the study group reading a book.
(d) The doorbell rings.

4. How does Nafisi feel about revealing herself in class?
(a) As if she were being forced to examine herself.
(b) As if she were surrounded by her best friends.
(c) As if she were having her insides pulled out.
(d) As if she were being undressed in front of strangers.

5. Why are Nafisi and her students in the room?
(a) Because they have nowhere else to go.
(b) To protect themselves from the reality outside.
(c) Because they have been confined by the religious patrols.
(d) To demonstrate control over their own lives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Nafisi feeling when the classroom trial of "The Great Gatsby" ends?

2. What do Nafisi and the magician share on their first meeting in his apartment?

3. Why does the professor ask Nima if his wife brainwashed him?

4. What becomes part of the "landscape" of Nafisi's class?

5. Why does the literature professor dislike Manna and Nima?

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