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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a perfectly equipped failure?
(a) A person who has every advantage, yet fails to complete simple tasks.
(b) An individual who never tries to fulfill his or her potential.
(c) A person who gives up their own integrity, but fails to become a success.
(d) A person who consciously chooses their own failure to preserve their own sense of integrity.

2. What does Nafisi describe as "the most unforgivable crime in fiction"?
(a) Use of a flawed heroine.
(b) Blindness.
(c) Sexual immorality.
(d) Absence of beauty.

3. In Part 2, Chapter 23, what are Mr. Nyazi and another student arguing about?
(a) The morality of "The Great Gatsby."
(b) Whether or not Nafisi should be expelled from the university.
(c) Whether or not the government intends to close down the universities.
(d) The value of teaching "The Great Gatsby" in an Islamic society.

4. Why does Yassi walk faster then suddenly stop when she is out with a gentleman caller?
(a) She wants to avoid spending much time with the gentleman caller, then realizes that he is a good match.
(b) She wants to see if he understands the game and would be a good match for her.
(c) She is trying to escape the chaperones, but finally realizes it is useless.
(d) She is surprised by the police who make her afraid, then she realizes that the gentleman will help protect her.

5. Why does Nafisi include a chapter on "Washington Square"?
(a) It is a symbol of the difficulties being faced by Nafisi's students.
(b) It is a statement about the importance of Henry James.
(c) It is a book that reminds Nafisi of her childhood.
(d) It is a memorial to a former student who was executed.

6. What is Hizbollah?
(a) The title of a religious tract that all Iranians must follow according to the regime leaders.
(b) A group of radical Muslims who murdered the Ayatollah Taleghani.
(c) The name of a radical student organization at the University of Tehran.
(d) A religious group also known as the Party of Allah, who are determined to put God's laws into practice on earth.

7. Who does Nafisi agree not to contact after she leaves Iran?
(a) Nassrin.
(b) Manna.
(c) The magician.
(d) The University of Tehran.

8. In Part 2, Chapter 14, what do the police do to the women at the protest meeting?
(a) The police protect the women who come to protest.
(b) The police push the women with the butts of their guns, and order them to go home.
(c) The police arrest the women and take them all to jail.
(d) The police stand off to one side and watch the event without participating.

9. Who is Mrs. Rezvan?
(a) The wife of one of Nafisi's former students.
(b) One of Nafisi's former students.
(c) A colleague of one of Nafisi's former students, who tries to get Nafisi to return to teaching.
(d) The mother of one of Nafisi's former students, who tries to get Nafisi to start a study group.

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

11. How does Nafisi feel when she hears the announcement that Iraq has attacked Iran?
(a) Relieved that someone will finally help end the political situation in her home country.
(b) Ambivalent, both angry and full of love and desire to protect her home country.
(c) Nervous, because she is afraid that she will be killed during the impending war.
(d) Unhappy, because she realizes what war will do to her friends and family.

12. In the epilogue, Nafisi makes an allusion to which novel?
(a) "Invitation to a Beheading."
(b) "The Great Gatsby."
(c) "Daisy Miller."
(d) "Lolita."

13. What do Nafisi and the magician share on their first meeting in his apartment?
(a) Tea and a box of foreign chocolates.
(b) Coffee and books.
(c) A foreign movie.
(d) Newspapers from foreign countries.

14. What project is Nassrin working on?
(a) Reading all the works of Islamic leaders.
(b) Translating English texts into Persian.
(c) Translating Islamic texts into English.
(d) A thesis on the works of the Ayatollah Khomeini.

15. In Part 4, Chapter 20, what does Nassrin decide to do?
(a) Go to London to live with her sister.
(b) Get divorced.
(c) Stay in Iran.
(d) Get married.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject do both Mike Gold and F. Scott Fitzgerald write about?

2. According to Nafisi, how can one stop "dancing with the jailer"?

3. How is Mr. Nahvi like Jane Austen's character Elizabeth Bennet?

4. Whose death is announced in Part 3, Chapter 33?

5. Why does Nafisi say the dream in "The Great Gatsby" is not a comment on America as a materialistic county?

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