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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 scene opens Chapter 12?
(a) Nafisi teaching a class at the University.
(b) Nafisi search for books in a bookstore.
(c) The members of the class arriving at Nafisi's house.
(d) The class sitting around a table in Nafisi's apartment.

2. Who is Mr. Bahir?
(a) The owner of her favorite bookstore.
(b) A man executed for charges of being too Westernized.
(c) The department chair of the Language Department at the University of Tehran.
(d) One of Nafisi's students.

3. According to Nafisi, how can one stop "dancing with the jailer"?
(a) Become a part of the ruling party and end oppression.
(b) Give in to the desires of the regime and follow the nation's laws.
(c) Remember that life is cyclical, and this time will end soon.
(d) Find a way to preserve one's uniqueness and individuality despite opposition and persecution.

4. Who delays Nafisi's expulsion from the university?
(a) The Committee on the Cultural Revolution.
(b) Mr. Bahir and some of Nafisi's former students.
(c) Nafisi's secular colleagues.
(d) Dr. A.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 9, what does Yassi ask Nafisi ?

2. What is the best definition of Nabokov's term "poshlust"?

3. Why is Negar upset?

4. When the intruders enter Nafisi's house, what happens?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 16, what are Nafisi and her male acquaintance discussing?

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