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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Nafisi uncomfortable with Mr. Bahir's action at the end of Part 2, Chapter 6?
(a) She does not wish to shake hands with a student.
(b) She does not know him well and his presence feels threatening.
(c) By placing his hands behind his back, he negates her gesture of goodwill.
(d) His action forces her to report him to the police.

2. Who is Hojatol-Islam Ali Khamenei?
(a) The president of the university.
(b) The magician.
(c) The successor to Ayatollah Khomeini.
(d) One of Nafisi's students.

3. In Part 2, Chapter 24, why do the demonstrators move toward the hospital?
(a) The bodies of the wounded and dead students are supposedly at the hospital, and demonstrators are concerned the police will transfer the bodies.
(b) Because the hospital is a neutral site, and they will be safe there.
(c) The hospital is at the top of a hill, so they can see the militia approaching from any direction.
(d) The demonstrators are seriously injured by the police and need medical treatment.

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

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

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

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

8. What gift does Nafisi give to the magician?
(a) A pair of scissors shaped like a rooster.
(b) A book written in English.
(c) A bottle of homemade wine.
(d) A box of foreign chocolates.

9. What does Mr. Forsati want to do?
(a) Marry one of Nafisi's students.
(b) Start a company related to videos and films.
(c) Work as an official in the Iranian regime.
(d) Write a novel about life in Iran.

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

11. Which character is the main subject of Part 3, Chapter 27?
(a) Mahtab.
(b) Yassrin.
(c) Manna.
(d) The Kid.

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

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

14. What is Nafisi feeling when the classroom trial of "The Great Gatsby" ends?
(a) A sense of anticipation for the next novel.
(b) Exhilaration about the engagement of the students.
(c) A sense of loss and mourning.
(d) Sadness because the students began fighting.

15. What subject do both Mike Gold and F. Scott Fitzgerald write about?
(a) The value in being poor.
(b) The morality of the wealthy.
(c) Dreams, specifically the American Dream.
(d) Loss, specifically the loss of innocence.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 4, Chapter 24, why do the girls have to sit in the back room of the restaurant?

2. What is the question Nafisi asks of all married couples?

3. Azin is described as having what noticeable characteristic?

4. Why does the government first enforce the requirement that women remain covered in workplaces and shops?

5. Why do the students begin to keep vigils at the University of Tehran?

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