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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. In Part 4, Chapter 12, where do Nafisi and her husband go?
(a) To a cafe.
(b) To the movies.
(c) To a lecture by a famous author.
(d) To a concert.

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

3. Who is Mike Gold?
(a) Nafisi's first literature student at the University of Tehran.
(b) The chair of the English Department at the University of Tehran.
(c) Nafisi's first husband and a leader in the Iranian Revolution.
(d) The editor of a radical literary journal and the subject of Nafisi's dissertation.

4. In Part 4, Chapter 1, what does Sanaz announce she is going to do?
(a) Become a teacher.
(b) Go to America and enroll in a university.
(c) Stop coming to the study club.
(d) Go to Turkey and see a man.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nafisi describe as "the most unforgivable crime in fiction"?

2. What right does Nafisi fantasize about being added to the Bill of Rights?

3. Whose death is announced in Part 3, Chapter 33?

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

5. What happens to Nassrin after she leaves Iran?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does Nafisi describe herself as becoming irrelevant?

7. What happens to Nafisi during her discussion with Mr. Bahri about wearing the veil?

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

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

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

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