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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Nafisi ask at the beginning of her first class at the University of Tehran?
(a) Why do you believe there will be a cultural revolution?
(b) Why is it important to get a college education?
(c) What did you think about the choice of books for this course?
(d) Why should anyone read fiction?

2. In Part 3, Chapter 6, why does Nafisi join a group?
(a) To teach classic works of English literature.
(b) To read and study classical Persian literature.
(c) To learn more about the principles of Islam.
(d) To read and study classic works of English literature.

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

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

5. What right does Nafisi fantasize about being added to the Bill of Rights?
(a) The right to teach Western literature in Iran.
(b) The right to travel in and out of Iran without fear.
(c) The right to free access to imagination.
(d) The right to not wear a veil or head scarf.

6. What causes the Iranian regime to temporarily relax the strict enforcement of their policies?
(a) Iraq's continued bombing of Iran's major cities.
(b) Pressure from Western countries.
(c) Opposition from members of Iranian society.
(d) The death of the Iranian president.

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

8. What does Nafisi describe in the epilogue?
(a) The activities of her former students after Nafisi left Iran.
(b) Her journey to America.
(c) How she made the decision to leave Iran.
(d) The memories of her former students who were executed.

9. What gift does Mrs. Rezvan give Nafisi?
(a) Three hair clips to keep her head scarf in place.
(b) A book of her original poetry.
(c) A new head scarf.
(d) Two photographs of Nafisi's students.

10. In Part 4, Chapter 24, why do the girls have to sit in the back room of the restaurant?
(a) The girls can remove their head scarves if they sit in the back room.
(b) Only men are permitted in the main section.
(c) The cafe is too small to accommodate the large group in the front.
(d) Unaccompanied women are not allowed to sit in the main section.

11. According to Zarrin, when is a novel moral?
(a) When the government approves of the content.
(b) When the reader is able to relate to the moral choices of the characters.
(c) When the characters conform to moral laws and values.
(d) When it makes the reader confront the absolutes in his or her belief system.

12. How does Nafisi feel when she hears the announcement that Iraq has attacked Iran?
(a) Nervous, because she is afraid that she will be killed during the impending war.
(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) Ambivalent, both angry and full of love and desire to protect her home country.

13. Where is the narrator at the beginning of the first chapter in Part II?
(a) In graduate school in the United States.
(b) In her apartment in Tehran.
(c) At the University of Tehran.
(d) At the Tehran airport.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens to Iranian writers and publishers during the mid-nineties?

3. What is the Dear Jane Society?

4. Why does Nafisi include a chapter on "Washington Square"?

5. What does Nafisi do with help from Mr. Forsati?

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