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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. Azin is described as having what noticeable characteristic?
(a) A bright blue head scarf.
(b) Long, thick brown hair.
(c) Bright red fingernail polish.
(d) Red, pouty lips.

2. How is Mr. Nahvi like Jane Austen's character Elizabeth Bennet?
(a) Both are members of the ruling class of society.
(b) Both are able to express their love in acceptable fashion.
(c) Both are popular with their peers.
(d) Both are obsessed with finding fault with things and people they dislike.

3. In Part 2, Chapter 14, what do the police do to the women at the protest meeting?
(a) The police push the women with the butts of their guns, and order them to go home.
(b) The police stand off to one side and watch the event without participating.
(c) The police arrest the women and take them all to jail.
(d) The police protect the women who come to protest.

4. Who is Ramin?
(a) Mrs. Rezvan's son.
(b) One of Nafisi's students who was executed.
(c) Nassrin's boyfriend.
(d) The name of the Iranian president.

5. What does Nafisi describe as "the most unforgivable crime in fiction"?
(a) Absence of beauty.
(b) Sexual immorality.
(c) Use of a flawed heroine.
(d) Blindness.

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 do the students begin to keep vigils at the University of Tehran?

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

4. What does Nafisi emphasize in the introductory course she teaches in Part 3?

5. What does the study group find disturbing about the texts written by the Ayatollah Khomeini?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Nafisi think teaching "The Great Gatsby" was the right choice for that time and place?

3. Why does Nafisi describe herself as becoming irrelevant?

4. Nafisi first mentions the magician in Part 1, Chapter 10. Why does she wait until Part 2, Chapter 20, to describe him more fully?

5. How does Nafisi react to the increase in protests, demonstrations, and violence associated with the revolution?

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

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

8. 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"?

9. What does Nafisi do during her time as a member of the Iranian Student Movement?

10. What are the similarities between Sanaz's experience in jail and the experience of Cincinnatus in "Invitation to a Beheading"? What are the differences between their experiences?

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