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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Chapters 13 - 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Nafisi write her class notes?
(a) Pocket calendars.
(b) Big diaries.
(c) Small scraps of paper.
(d) Lined paper tablets.

2. Whose death is announced in Part 3, Chapter 33?
(a) The death of Nafisi's former student.
(b) The death of Ayatollah Khomeini.
(c) The death of the magician.
(d) The death of Nafisi's mother.

3. 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."

4. What activity does Nafisi do with her students to help them understand the characters in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice"?
(a) She dances with them.
(b) She takes them to a cafe.
(c) She asks them to write descriptions of the main characters.
(d) She puts the main character on trial.

5. In Part 3, Chapter 19, where does Nafisi go?
(a) To a screening of foreign films by a Russian director.
(b) To a concert by foreign musicians.
(c) To a class at a foreign university.
(d) To a meeting at the magician's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 15, how does the study group define a villain?

2. Chapter 15 presents a clear parallel between the character of Humbert and which group of people?

3. Who are the Mujahedeen?

4. What does the closeness of the room do to Nafisi and her students?

5. What does Nafisi describe as the crux of the problem in "Lolita"?

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