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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. Who was Nafisi's father?
(a) A troubled businessman.
(b) A famous author.
(c) The director of a high school in Switzerland.
(d) The youngest mayor of Tehran in pre-revolutionary Iran.

2. What does Nafisi share with her male acquaintance in Chapter 16?
(a) A ham sandwich.
(b) A car ride.
(c) A dinner party.
(d) An ice cream cone.

3. Chapter 12 takes place during which season?
(a) Spring.
(b) Winter.
(c) Fall.
(d) Summer.

4. What is the main point of Chapter 12?
(a) The students enjoy reading "Lolita."
(b) Copies of books are not readily available in Tehran.
(c) To provide the reader with a sketch of the class meeting to discuss "Lolita."
(d) To provide the reader with an understanding of how "Lolita" was sold in Tehran.

5. What are the biggest threats to an idealized vision of an individual or a country?
(a) The use of literature as a teaching tool.
(b) Interactions between men and women.
(c) The memory of what was real in the past and a sense of imagination about future possibilities.
(d) Goals for the present government.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Negar upset?

2. What are students at Nafisi's school regularly asked to do?

3. Nassrin describes herself as being in the middle of what for her whole life?

4. What does Nafisi believe is the main point of "Lolita"?

5. Why does Nafisi's acquaintance refuse to meet with her students?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What factors cause Nafisi to resign from her position at the university?

3. Why does Nafisi believe the scene where Humbert picked up Lolita at summer camp is the heart of Nabokov's novel?

4. Why does Nafisi consider Humbert to be a seducer of the readers of "Lolita"?

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

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

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

8. Why does Nafisi ask her children about their memories of Iran?

9. Why do Mitra and the other students find the Thursday study group to be significant?

10. What is the significance of the green gate Nafisi mentions in Chapter 9?

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