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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 does Nafisi emphasize in the introductory course she teaches in Part 3?
(a) The ways novels change ideas about relationships between individuals.
(b) The ways novels are similar to contemporary life.
(c) The ways novels emphasize religious and cultural values.
(d) The ways novels present women in Western culture.

2. What is Mina's job?
(a) Baker.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Mother.
(d) Translator.

3. Which character is the main subject of Part 3, Chapter 27?
(a) Yassrin.
(b) The Kid.
(c) Manna.
(d) Mahtab.

4. Who does Nafisi believe is an example of a National Writer?
(a) She believes Nabokov is an example of a National Writer.
(b) She believes all writers are national writers, but no writer is a National Writer.
(c) She believes Mark Twain is an example of a National Writer.
(d) She believes all writers are National Writers.

5. In Part 3, Chapter 14, what author does Mr. Ghoni use to indirectly question Nafisi?
(a) Vladimir Nabokov.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Henry James.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Nafisi meet with in Part 3, Chapter 10?

2. What project is Nassrin working on?

3. What gift does Mrs. Rezvan give Nafisi?

4. In Part 4, Chapter 1, what does Sanaz announce she is going to do?

5. What does the magician tell Nafisi she should do to help her students survive?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What kind of man is Mr. Bahri?

3. How has Miss Ruhi changed since her introduction in Part 3, Chapter 14?

4. What are the similarities between the lives of the characters in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" and the lives of Nafisi's students?

5. 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?

6. What is the impact of Iran's war with Iraq?

7. What does it mean to be complicit in one's own crimes?

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

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

10. What does Nafisi mean by her statement that she "left Iran, but Iran did not leave me?"

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