1. Who was Nafisi's father?
(a) A troubled businessman.
(b) A famous author.
(c) The director of a high school in Switzerland.
(d) The youngest mayor of Tehran in pre-revolutionary Iran.

2. How do the students get enough copies of "Lolita" to study?
(a) They find one copy and pass it around until everyone has read it.
(b) They go to all of the second-hand bookstores until they find enough copies.
(c) They order copies through a local bookstore.
(d) They find one copy and photocopy it.

3. 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 images show the contrast between the repression of the outside world and the individuality and freedom allowed in the apartment.
(c) The photographs are evidence that literature is more powerful than clothing.
(d) The photographs show how much her students changed after they studied literature.

4. What scene opens Chapter 12?
(a) Nafisi search for books in a bookstore.
(b) Nafisi teaching a class at the University.
(c) The class sitting around a table in Nafisi's apartment.
(d) The members of the class arriving at Nafisi's house.

5. Why do Ministry of Education officials ask the faculty at Nafisi's school if they thought they were in Switzerland?
(a) Because Switzerland has schools with conservative values just like the conservative values of the University of Tehran.
(b) Because the University of Tehran is the most liberal campus in Iran, and Switzerland is the byword for Western lax and decadent behavior.
(c) Because Switzerland is the model for the type of government the Ministry of Education is trying to establish.
(d) Because the officials believe the University of Tehran is too conservative and should be more like schools in Switzerland.