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

2. Who does Nafisi meet with in Part 3, Chapter 10?
(a) Officials at a local university.
(b) Her study group.
(c) Local religious leaders.
(d) The magician.

3. Why is Nafisi uncomfortable with Mr. Bahir's action at the end of Part 2, Chapter 6?
(a) She does not know him well and his presence feels threatening.
(b) By placing his hands behind his back, he negates her gesture of goodwill.
(c) She does not wish to shake hands with a student.
(d) His action forces her to report him to the police.

4. 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 is trying to escape the chaperones, but finally realizes it is useless.
(c) She wants to avoid spending much time with the gentleman caller, then realizes that he is a good match.
(d) She wants to see if he understands the game and would be a good match for her.

5. In Part 2, Chapter 12, why does Nafisi decide to cancel class?
(a) So she can demonstrate against the government taking over the university.
(b) Because her students are not coming to class, and she doesn't want to teach to an empty room.
(c) So she can go to a meeting to protest the government's requirement that women wear a veil in public.
(d) So she can have more time to read books.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the narrator at the beginning of the first chapter in Part II?

2. What is the Dear Jane Society?

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

4. What gift does Nafisi give to the magician?

5. Who is Ramin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the magician tell Nafisi she should return to teaching?

2. What does Nafisi do during her early years as a professor at the University of Tehran?

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

4. What kind of man is Mr. Bahri?

5. Why does Nafisi call Catherine in "Washington Square" the inverse of our ideas about what a heroine should be?

6. Why is Nafisi conflicted about returning to full-time teaching?

7. Why does Nafisi focus on Azin's painted fingernails?

8. What does Nafisi mean when she says that the real day of the Ayatollah's death has not yet occurred?

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

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

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