2. What is the first assignment for the students in the study group?
(a) To relax and enjoy reading.
(b) To analyze the types of women found in a piece of literature.
(c) To create a secret language using invented words.
(d) To remember what Nafisi taught in her university classes.

3. What does Nafisi believe is the main point of "Lolita"?
(a) It is an example of how to achieve perfection.
(b) It is a morality tale about what happens to girls who disobey.
(c) It is a critique of what occurs in totalitarian systems.
(d) It is a demonstration of religious fanaticism.

4. How do the Iranian authorities view the country's past?
(a) Iran's past is used as a foundation for the development of a more modern society.
(b) The Iranian leaders see the country's past as an example for other societies.
(c) The past is irrelevant to the leaders who want to establish a perfect Koranic society.
(d) Iran's past is considered important in the development of a perfect Koranic society.

5. Who is the villain in "Lolita"?
(a) Lolita.
(b) The director of the summer camp.
(c) Humbert.
(d) The individual with the imaginative mind.

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

7. What does Nafisi consider to be the first lesson in democracy?
(a) All individuals have the right to freedom of speech.
(b) All individuals have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
(c) All individuals have the right to dress as they please.
(d) All individuals have the right to vote for their own leaders.

8. How does the professor solve problems of literary criticism?
(a) By asking the class to vote on matters of interpretation.
(b) By telling students that literary criticism is not important.
(c) By talking to his colleagues on the University faculty.
(d) By finding critical essays that support his viewpoint.

9. Why is Mashid jailed?
(a) Because she tells her parents she was translating Islamic texts into English.
(b) Because she steals flowers.
(c) Because people find out she was studying literature.
(d) Because she is associated with a dissident organization.

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

11. What does Nafisi see reflected in the mirror?
(a) A hospital.
(b) Her students.
(c) Mountains.
(d) Her husband.

12. How does Nafisi feel about revealing herself in class?
(a) As if she were having her insides pulled out.
(b) As if she were being forced to examine herself.
(c) As if she were surrounded by her best friends.
(d) As if she were being undressed in front of strangers.

13. 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 lost a great deal of money and could not pay the bills.
(d) He challenged the educational system.

14. Where are Nafisi's children when Chapter 19 begins?
(a) Washington.
(b) Tehran.
(c) Jail.
(d) At a restaurant.

15. What type of author do the students seem most interested in studying?
(a) "Non-revolutionary" authors such as Joyce, Nabokov, Woolf, and Austin.
(b) Authors who show the benefits of a religious society.
(c) "Revolutionary" authors who are tied to current political ideologies.
(d) Authors who have female characters with strong opinions.