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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Nafisi learn of her father's arrest?
(a) Her father told her many years later.
(b) She heard her mother telling her sister.
(c) She was pulled out of her sophomore class in Switzerland.
(d) The government came to her house.

2. What does Nafisi describe as the crux of the problem in "Lolita"?
(a) Lolita has no other choice but to stay with Humbert.
(b) Lolita is in love with Humbert.
(c) Humbert is in love with Lolita.
(d) Humbert does not understand Lolita.

3. Who is Negar?
(a) One of Nafisi's students.
(b) Nafisi's mother.
(c) Nafisi's sister.
(d) Nafisi's daughter.

4. Why are Manna's friends reprimanded by guards?
(a) Because they were wearing makeup.
(b) Because they were not wearing their veils.
(c) Because they were walking on the street.
(d) Because they were biting apples too seductively.

5. Why does Nafisi remind the students of Nabokov?
(a) Because Nabokov symbolizes the kind of writer that the students want be become.
(b) Because Nabokov wrote in an unsettled environment like the setting the students are in.
(c) Nabokov believed that a totalitarian government offered students the chance to be free.
(d) Nabokov is Nafisi's favorite author.

6. Why was Nafisi's father arrested?
(a) He was not a member of the religious community.
(b) He ignored directions from those in higher levels of government.
(c) He challenged the educational system.
(d) He lost a great deal of money and could not pay the bills.

7. Why does Nafisi's apartment lack matching furniture and fancy window dressings?
(a) Her belongings were taken by revolutionaries.
(b) She is more concerned with literature and the inner world of knowledge.
(c) She is too poor to afford material possessions.
(d) Her mother does not believe those items are appropriate for women.

8. Why is it so difficult to find a copy of "Lolita" in Tehran?
(a) The book has been banned.
(b) The bookstores are unable to order books with female characters.
(c) The bookstores are closed.
(d) Students prefer to read from photocopies, not books.

9. Why do the students meet in Nafisi's apartment?
(a) To study and discuss literature.
(b) To plan ways to join the revolution.
(c) To escape the University of Tehran.
(d) To learn about religious freedom.

10. In Chapter 9, what does Nafisi do to answer Yassi's question?
(a) Nafisi uses literature as a point of reference for her answer.
(b) Nafisi tells Yassi that she should not get married while she is young.
(c) Nafisi tells Yassi to ask her parents for assistance.
(d) Nafisi shows Yassi pictures of her childhood.

11. Why does Nafisi return to the two photographs of her students in Chapter 7?
(a) The photographs show how much her students changed after they studied literature.
(b) The images show the contrast between the repression of the outside world and the individuality and freedom allowed in the apartment.
(c) The photographs are evidence that literature is more powerful than clothing.
(d) She wants to show how her students are the same people regardless of how they dress.

12. What are the biggest threats to an idealized vision of an individual or a country?
(a) Interactions between men and women.
(b) The use of literature as a teaching tool.
(c) The memory of what was real in the past and a sense of imagination about future possibilities.
(d) Goals for the present government.

13. In Chapter 9, what does Yassi ask Nafisi ?
(a) Yassi asks if she is like Lolita.
(b) Yassi asks if she can live with Nafisi.
(c) Yassi asks if she should go to America.
(d) Yassi asks if she should remain at the University of Tehran.

14. When the intruders enter Nafisi's house, what happens?
(a) They take her children away.
(b) There is a gun battle with Nafisi's neighbor.
(c) They catch Nafisi and the study group reading a book.
(d) The doorbell rings.

15. Chapter 15 presents a clear parallel between the character of Humbert and which group of people?
(a) The parents of the students in Nafisi's class.
(b) The mullahs of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
(c) The students in Nafisi's class.
(d) The men who the students are related to.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 14, what question does Mitra ask about "Lolita"?

2. Why is Nafisi nervous about the intruders being in her house?

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

4. What causes Manna and Nima to fall in love?

5. How does Nafisi's male acquaintance think he can tell a person's character?

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