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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Nafisi select her students for the small study group?
(a) She chooses students who dislike the liberal qualities of the university.
(b) She chooses students who are loners or outsiders.
(c) She chooses students who can afford to pay her on a regular basis.
(d) She chooses students who earn good grades in all their classes.

2. How does Nabokov's character Cincinnatus C. become a hero?
(a) By fighting off his jailors.
(b) By giving in to the requirements of the government.
(c) By refusing to be like everyone else.
(d) By rescuing those who are falsely imprisoned.

3. What is the first work Nafisi and her students in the study group discuss?
(a) "Lolita."
(b) "A Thousand and One Nights."
(c) "Invitation to a Beheading."
(d) "Nabokov."

4. What object does Nafisi refer to when she first describes the students in her study group?
(a) Tehran.
(b) A veil.
(c) Her apartment.
(d) A photograph.

5. Why does Nafisi return to the two photographs of her students in Chapter 7?
(a) The images show the contrast between the repression of the outside world and the individuality and freedom allowed in the apartment.
(b) She wants to show how her students are the same people regardless of how they dress.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Nafisi's apartment located?

2. Why does Nafisi remind the students of Nabokov?

3. Why is Mashid jailed?

4. In Chapter 9, what does Nafisi do to answer Yassi's question?

5. According to Nafisi, how is Yassi like Lolita?

(see the answer key)

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