1. What secret does Nassrin tell Nafisi?
(a) She was leaving for America.
(b) She had left her family to work for an Islamist student group.
(c) She had been married and divorced.
(d) She had been sexually abused by her youngest uncle.

2. According to Nafisi, how is Yassi like Lolita?
(a) Both girls have had their lives changed by reading books.
(b) Both girls are reflections of Nafisi's personal experiences.
(c) Both girls have been raped by older men.
(d) Both girls have been deprived of the beauty of an ordinary, everyday life.

3. Who is Mike Gold?
(a) The editor of a radical literary journal and the subject of Nafisi's dissertation.
(b) The chair of the English Department at the University of Tehran.
(c) Nafisi's first literature student at the University of Tehran.
(d) Nafisi's first husband and a leader in the Iranian Revolution.

4. Why does Nafisi return to the two photographs of her students in Chapter 7?
(a) She wants to show how her students are the same people regardless of how they dress.
(b) The photographs are evidence that literature is more powerful than clothing.
(c) The photographs show how much her students changed after they studied literature.
(d) The images show the contrast between the repression of the outside world and the individuality and freedom allowed in the apartment.

5. Why is Nafisi nervous about the intruders being in her house?
(a) She has young children who are afraid of guns.
(b) She believes her neighbor will blame her for whatever happens.
(c) She hasn't cleaned the house for a religious celebration.
(d) She has a forbidden satellite dish.