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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Mike Gold?
(a) Nafisi's first husband and a leader in the Iranian Revolution.
(b) The chair of the English Department at the University of Tehran.
(c) The editor of a radical literary journal and the subject of Nafisi's dissertation.
(d) Nafisi's first literature student at the University of Tehran.

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

3. Who does Nafisi meet with in Part 3, Chapter 10?
(a) The magician.
(b) Officials at a local university.
(c) Her study group.
(d) Local religious leaders.

4. Who delays Nafisi's expulsion from the university?
(a) Mr. Bahir and some of Nafisi's former students.
(b) The Committee on the Cultural Revolution.
(c) Dr. A.
(d) Nafisi's secular colleagues.

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

6. What is the Dear Jane Society?
(a) A group of Nafisi's students who have broken up with their boyfriends.
(b) A secret society Nafisi's students never actually form.
(c) The nickname for Nafisi's students who love Jane Austen.
(d) The nickname for Nafisi's study name.

7. In Part 3, Chapter 4, who asks to meet with Nafisi?
(a) Mr. Nyazi.
(b) Mr. Bahir.
(c) Laleh.
(d) The Committee on Cultural Revolution.

8. In Part 4, Chapter 12, where do Nafisi and her husband go?
(a) To a lecture by a famous author.
(b) To the movies.
(c) To a cafe.
(d) To a concert.

9. In Part 3, Chapter 14, which former student comes to see Nafisi?
(a) Mr. Bahri.
(b) Manna.
(c) Mahtab.
(d) Nima.

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

11. How does the class study of "The Great Gatsby" affect Nafisi?
(a) She learns that she is really an American, not an Iranian.
(b) She gains insight into her feelings and desires about her work and the meaning of literature in her life.
(c) She becomes sad, because her students do not enjoy the novel.
(d) She discovers that she loves teaching revolutionary novels.

12. Why does Nafisi form a friendship with Jeff?
(a) They are both actively demonstrating against the Iranian government.
(b) Because her relationship with her husband is strained, and she is lonely.
(c) They both enjoy having a friend who speaks English and has memories of America.
(d) Jeff is one of her best students, and they enjoy discussing literature together.

13. Why does Nafisi collect pictures of martyrs during the war?
(a) It is a superstitious action, a way to deal with forces outside her control.
(b) They are evidence that the government has committed war crimes.
(c) She knows many of the people who are killed and wants to have a reminder of their lives.
(d) She sees the war as a sign that she should become more religious.

14. In Part 4, Chapter 1, what does Sanaz announce she is going to do?
(a) Go to America and enroll in a university.
(b) Go to Turkey and see a man.
(c) Stop coming to the study club.
(d) Become a teacher.

15. Why does Nafisi include the scene from "Invitation to a Beheading" in Chapter 22?
(a) The scene was just studied in Nafisi's study group.
(b) She is making the point that all governments are corrupt.
(c) It illustrates the way totalitarian governments force victims to participate in crimes against themselves.
(d) Nafisi believes that scene shows how her students will be mistreated if they are thrown in jail.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 3, Chapter 19, where does Nafisi go?

2. How does Mr. Bahir become president of the Muslim Students' Association at the University of Tehran?

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

4. Nafisi describes Austen as being most interested in depicting what?

5. In Part 3, Chapter 13, what does Nafisi get on the first day she begins teaching?

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