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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapters 6 - 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Nafisi and the magician share on their first meeting in his apartment?
(a) Coffee and books.
(b) Tea and a box of foreign chocolates.
(c) A foreign movie.
(d) Newspapers from foreign countries.

2. What object becomes popular in Iran?
(a) A satellite dish.
(b) Foreign language novels.
(c) The Great Gatsby.
(d) A mirror.

3. In Part 3, Chapter 9, what author does Nafisi discuss with the magician?
(a) Hammett.
(b) Nabokov.
(c) Twain.
(d) Shakespeare.

4. Who is Mrs. Rezvan?
(a) A colleague of one of Nafisi's former students, who tries to get Nafisi to return to teaching.
(b) One of Nafisi's former students.
(c) The mother of one of Nafisi's former students, who tries to get Nafisi to start a study group.
(d) The wife of one of Nafisi's former students.

5. What does Nafisi describe as the crux of the problem in "Lolita"?
(a) Lolita is in love with Humbert.
(b) Lolita has no other choice but to stay with Humbert.
(c) Humbert is in love with Lolita.
(d) Humbert does not understand Lolita.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Part 3, Chapter 11 begin?

2. What does Nafisi consider to be the first lesson in democracy?

3. Why does the professor ask Nima if his wife brainwashed him?

4. In "Lolita," how does Humbert attempt to gain the reader's sympathy?

5. Who is the villain in "Lolita"?

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