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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 is the question Nafisi asks of all married couples?
2. In Part 3, Chapter 6, why does Nafisi join a group?
3. Why does Nafisi say the dream in "The Great Gatsby" is not a comment on America as a materialistic county?
4. Why do the students begin to keep vigils at the University of Tehran?
5. In Part 2, Chapter 24, why do the demonstrators move toward the hospital?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Nafisi describe herself as becoming irrelevant?
2. Why does Nafisi focus on Azin's painted fingernails?
3. How are the contemporary events in Iran similar to the events that Nafisi describes in her classroom?
4. What does the Islamist Iranian regime have in common with the theme of Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby"?
5. How does Nafisi react to the increase in protests, demonstrations, and violence associated with the revolution?
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 does Nafisi refer to the concert she attends as a parody of the real thing?
8. Why does Nafisi call Catherine in "Washington Square" the inverse of our ideas about what a heroine should be?
9. What does it mean to be complicit in one's own crimes?
10. Why does Nafisi add an epilogue to the end of the memoir?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
On Nafisi's first day of teaching at the University of Tehran, she asks the students what fiction should accomplish. Using examples from the text, write an essay comparing and contrasting the answer from the perspective of one of the students in Nafisi's student class and the answer from the perspective of Mr. Bahri of Mr. Nyazi.
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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