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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Mr. Forsati want to do?
2. What is Hizbollah?
3. How does Nafisi describe the Iranian perception of America?
4. Who does Nafisi believe is an example of a National Writer?
5. Why does Nafisi include a chapter on "Washington Square"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Nafisi call Catherine in "Washington Square" the inverse of our ideas about what a heroine should be?
2. How are the contemporary events in Iran similar to the events that Nafisi describes in her classroom?
3. 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?
4. Why does Nafisi think teaching "The Great Gatsby" was the right choice for that time and place?
5. What does Nafisi mean by her statement that she "left Iran, but Iran did not leave me?"
6. 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"?
7. Why is Nafisi conflicted about returning to full-time teaching?
8. Why does the magician tell Nafisi she should return to teaching?
9. What are the similarities between the lives of the characters in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" and the lives of Nafisi's students?
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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Nafisi opens and closes the book with images and accounts of the students in her secret class. This creates a satisfying conclusion and cyclic treatment in the book. What other examples of cyclic treatment are evident in the book? Choose 2 examples and write an essay illustrating how Nafisi uses cyclic treatment throughout the book.
Essay Topic 2
Nafisi opens the book by asking the reader to imagine the secret class. She ends the book by wondering if she imagined the magician. Throughout the memoir, she mentions imagination in connection to the Iranian regime, to the authors of the fictional novels she teaches, and in the lives of herself and her students. What is the role of imagination in "Reading Lolita in Tehran"? How do each of those characters (the regime, the authors, Nafisi, her students) view imagination?
Essay Topic 3
Several times Nafisi refers to the individual rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Write an essay that focuses on one of those rights. How is that right viewed by the Islamist Iranian Republic? How is that right portrayed in the literature Nafisi teaches? What does Nafisi do to assert her rights?
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