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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the students get enough copies of "Lolita" to study?
(a) They find one copy and pass it around until everyone has read it.
(b) They order copies through a local bookstore.
(c) They find one copy and photocopy it.
(d) They go to all of the second-hand bookstores until they find enough copies.

2. What would happen if the "Blood of God" militia saw a girl with nail polish or a strand of loose hair?
(a) The girl would be escorted home, where her family would forbid her to go out of the house unescorted.
(b) The militia would not permit the girl to continue studying literature.
(c) The girl would be punished and humiliated for violating laws.
(d) The girl would be beheaded as an example of an evil woman.

3. According to Nafisi, how is the character of Lolita like Nafisi's students?
(a) Lolita and Nafisi's students are perfect images of the ideal woman in a totalitarian regime.
(b) Lolita and Nafisi's students are both stuck in the past, unable to accept present conditions.
(c) Lolita and Nafisi's students are props in someone else's quest to find the perfect image.
(d) Lolita and Nafisi's students both exhibit characteristics of heroism in dealing with their past.

4. What does Nassrin's mother teach her daughter?
(a) Arabic.
(b) English.
(c) German.
(d) French.

5. In "Lolita," how does Humbert attempt to gain the reader's sympathy?
(a) By making Lolita seem highly desirable.
(b) By always talking in the first person.
(c) By making Lolita seem undesirable.
(d) By blaming himself for all of Lolita's problems.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Negar upset?

2. Who demands entry into Nafisi's house?

3. How does Nafisi's male acquaintance think he can tell a person's character?

4. What does the class strive to do in their study of literature?

5. What object does Nafisi refer to when she first describes the students in her study group?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the magician do with the photographs Nafisi shows him?

2. How do the university officials react to Nafisi before and after her resignation?

3. What is the relationship between the imaginary rain shower and the meeting of Nafisi's class?

4. Why do Nafisi and her students feel so strongly about Nabokov and his works?

5. What happens to disrupt the class discussion in Chapter 17?

6. Why is it difficult to find a copy of "Lolita" in Tehran?

7. Why do the magician and Nafisi enjoy each other's company so much?

8. In Chapter 2, why does Nafisi describe the first meeting of the study group in present tense instead of past tense?

9. Why does Nafisi agree with Nabokov's statement that every great novel is a fairy tale?

10. How is Professor X's method of teaching literature different than Nafisi's method of teaching literature?

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