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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. The desire for what intangible object drives Nafisi's students?
(a) The desire for beauty.
(b) The desire for truth.
(c) The desire for justice.
(d) The desire for morality.

2. Why is it so difficult to find a copy of "Lolita" in Tehran?
(a) The bookstores are unable to order books with female characters.
(b) Students prefer to read from photocopies, not books.
(c) The bookstores are closed.
(d) The book has been banned.

3. How did Nafisi learn of her father's arrest?
(a) Her father told her many years later.
(b) She heard her mother telling her sister.
(c) She was pulled out of her sophomore class in Switzerland.
(d) The government came to her house.

4. What is the dream Nafisi and her students share?
(a) The dreamer is captured by the morality police.
(b) The dreamer has escaped to America.
(c) The dreamer is able to purchase and read any book she wants.
(d) The dreamer is not wearing a veil and is running away.

5. How do the Iranian authorities view the country's past?
(a) The Iranian leaders see the country's past as an example for other societies.
(b) Iran's past is used as a foundation for the development of a more modern society.
(c) The past is irrelevant to the leaders who want to establish a perfect Koranic society.
(d) Iran's past is considered important in the development of a perfect Koranic society.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nafisi refer to her male acquaintance?

2. Why is Nafisi worried about her students?

3. How does Nafisi's acquaintance describe her students?

4. Why does Nafisi remind the students of Nabokov?

5. What secret does Nassrin tell Nafisi?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Nafisi include Part 1, Chapter 12 in her memoir?

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

4. How is the generation of Nafisi's students different from the generation of Nafisi and her peers?

5. In Part 1, Chapter 18, the room where the class meets becomes a character. How does Nafisi describe the room?

6. What is the role of literature in Part 1, Chapter 20?

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

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

9. What is the purpose of the dreams that Nafisi describes?

10. What is the similarity between Lolita's past and the past of Nafisi's students?

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