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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. According to Nafisi, how can one stop "dancing with the jailer"?
(a) Find a way to preserve one's uniqueness and individuality despite opposition and persecution.
(b) Become a part of the ruling party and end oppression.
(c) Give in to the desires of the regime and follow the nation's laws.
(d) Remember that life is cyclical, and this time will end soon.
2. What is the first work Nafisi and her students in the study group discuss?
(a) "Nabokov."
(b) "Lolita."
(c) "A Thousand and One Nights."
(d) "Invitation to a Beheading."
3. What does Nafisi emphasize in the introductory course she teaches in Part 3?
(a) The ways novels emphasize religious and cultural values.
(b) The ways novels are similar to contemporary life.
(c) The ways novels present women in Western culture.
(d) The ways novels change ideas about relationships between individuals.
4. Why does Professor R. continue to participate in vigils at the University of Tehran after he resigns from his position?
(a) He wants his students to know he did not leave because he was afraid the government would persecute him.
(b) He believes that the university needed to know how strongly he felt about his actions.
(c) He is angry with the university's decision to change the curriculum, and wants to punish the leaders for their decision.
(d) He wants his students to see him as a political figure and an inspiration for their own political choices.
5. How is Nafisi's generation different from that of her students?
(a) Nafisi's generation dislike their past, while her students celebrate their past.
(b) Nafisi's generation like the events of their past, while her students dislike their past.
(c) Nafisi's generation had a past to compare to their present, while her students have no past.
(d) Nafisi's generation had no past, while her students have no future.
Short Answer Questions
1. What scene opens Chapter 12?
2. Why does the male student have to meet with Nafisi separately?
3. What is Nafisi doing at the beginning of Chapter 11?
4. What does the closeness of the room do to Nafisi and her students?
5. What does Nafisi teach during her first semester as a professor at the University of Tehran?
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