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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. What is the dream Nafisi and her students share?
(a) The dreamer is not wearing a veil and is running away.
(b) The dreamer is captured by the morality police.
(c) The dreamer has escaped to America.
(d) The dreamer is able to purchase and read any book she wants.

2. How is Nafisi's generation different from that of her students?
(a) Nafisi's generation like the events of their past, while her students dislike their past.
(b) Nafisi's generation had no past, while her students have no future.
(c) Nafisi's generation dislike their past, while her students celebrate their past.
(d) Nafisi's generation had a past to compare to their present, while her students have no past.

3. Where do the intruders to Nafisi's house go once they are in her house?
(a) Into the library.
(b) To the rear balcony.
(c) To the front balcony.
(d) To the kitchen.

4. What is Nafisi doing at the beginning of Chapter 11?
(a) Remembering her life as a child.
(b) Cleaning out her office at the University of Tehran.
(c) Looking over the class notes she kept from the study sessions.
(d) Looking at the photographs of the girls.

5. How does Part 3, Chapter 11 begin?
(a) With a student talking in Nafisi's classroom.
(b) With Nafisi standing in her apartment.
(c) With the announcement that accompanies air raid sirens.
(d) With a quote from "Daisy Miller."

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Lolita," how does Humbert attempt to gain the reader's sympathy?

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

3. In Part 3, Chapter 13, what does Nafisi get on the first day she begins teaching?

4. How does Nafisi select her students for the small study group?

5. What would happen if the "Blood of God" militia saw a girl with nail polish or a strand of loose hair?

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