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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. Whose death is announced in Part 3, Chapter 33?
(a) The death of Nafisi's former student.
(b) The death of Nafisi's mother.
(c) The death of the magician.
(d) The death of Ayatollah Khomeini.

2. Who does Nafisi consider to be the "real protagonists" in her class?
(a) Outsiders, including former students, who come because of their commitment to literature.
(b) The novels that are read.
(c) The young women who register for the course.
(d) The members of the Muslim Student Association.

3. How does Nafisi feel when she hears the announcement that Iraq has attacked Iran?
(a) Nervous, because she is afraid that she will be killed during the impending war.
(b) Ambivalent, both angry and full of love and desire to protect her home country.
(c) Unhappy, because she realizes what war will do to her friends and family.
(d) Relieved that someone will finally help end the political situation in her home country.

4. What is the relationship between Nafisi and her first husband?
(a) She learns from him how to become a traditional Iranian wife.
(b) They clash over appropriate ways for women to behave and ultimately divorce.
(c) They enjoy a good relationship until Nafisi begins demonstrating in support of the Iranian government.
(d) He teaches her how to become a demonstrator and serves as her first mentor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nafisi form a friendship with Jeff?

2. Who is Dr. Shahpour Bakhtiar?

3. In Part 3, Chapter 19, where does Nafisi go?

4. How is Mr. Nahvi like Jane Austen's character Elizabeth Bennet?

5. In Part 3, Chapter 3, what do Laleh and Nafisi discuss at the restaurant?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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