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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. What is Mina's job?
(a) Mother.
(b) Translator.
(c) Baker.
(d) Teacher.

2. Who is Dr. Shahpour Bakhtiar?
(a) One of Nafisi's students.
(b) An Iranian intellectual who escaped to Iraq to avoid jail.
(c) Nafisi's colleague at the University of Tehran.
(d) A nationalist leader who became prime minister in 1979.

3. Why does the professor ask Nima if his wife brainwashed him?
(a) Because Nima and his wife both voted against the professor's views.
(b) Because the professor believed Nima's wife was a better student.
(c) Because the professor valued the opinions of women more than the opinions of men.
(d) Because Nima always relied on his wife to answer questions.

4. Where is the narrator at the beginning of the first chapter in Part II?
(a) At the Tehran airport.
(b) At the University of Tehran.
(c) In her apartment in Tehran.
(d) In graduate school in the United States.

5. How does Nafisi introduce the reader to the students in her class?
(a) She shows the photograph that was taken of the group of students.
(b) She gives each student a nickname based on their favorite book.
(c) She describes the arrival of each student on the first day of class.
(d) She describes the students as a group so the reader understands the importance of community.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nafisi remind the students of Nabokov?

2. What is Nafisi doing at the beginning of Chapter 11?

3. What does Nafisi see reflected in the mirror?

4. According to Zarrin, when is a novel moral?

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

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