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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. What happens to Sanaz when she is on vacation?
(a) She decides that she can no longer participate in the goals of the revolution.
(b) She is expelled from the university because she is in Nafisi's study group.
(c) She is kidnapped by her brother, who accuses her of being too Westernized.
(d) Revolutionary Guards search the house where she is staying and take her to jail for 48 hours.

2. Why does Yassi walk faster then suddenly stop when she is out with a gentleman caller?
(a) She is surprised by the police who make her afraid, then she realizes that the gentleman will help protect her.
(b) She wants to see if he understands the game and would be a good match for her.
(c) She wants to avoid spending much time with the gentleman caller, then realizes that he is a good match.
(d) She is trying to escape the chaperones, but finally realizes it is useless.

3. What does the magician tell Nafisi she should do to help her students survive?
(a) Help them gain admission to an American college.
(b) Help them find a good marriage.
(c) Help them leave Iran.
(d) Help them regain their imagination.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nafisi say the dream in "The Great Gatsby" is not a comment on America as a materialistic county?

2. Why is Nafisi uncomfortable with Mr. Bahir's action at the end of Part 2, Chapter 6?

3. In Part 3, Chapter 4, who asks to meet with Nafisi?

4. Who does Nafisi agree not to contact after she leaves Iran?

5. What game does Nafisi play when she begins wearing a black robe?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the contemporary events in Iran similar to the events that Nafisi describes in her classroom?

2. In Part 3, Chapter 14, why does Nafisi describe her students in such detail?

3. Why does Nafisi add an epilogue to the end of the memoir?

4. How are Mr. Ghoni's statements about "Daisy Miller" in Part 3, Chapter 15, similar to Mr. Nyazi's statements in Part 3, Chapters 17 and 18, about "The Great Gatsby"?

5. Why does a university staff member describe the Ayatollah's funeral as an event?

6. Why does Nafisi get upset with students in her class at Alzahrah University (Part 3, Chapter 25)?

7. Why does Nafisi refer to the concert she attends as a parody of the real thing?

8. Why does Nafisi describe herself as becoming irrelevant?

9. What does the Islamist Iranian regime have in common with the theme of Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby"?

10. Part 2, Chapter 11 begins with a quote from Mike Gold, "Art is useful as bread." How is this quote related to the rest of the chapter and to previous incidents in Nafisi's text?

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