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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Nafisi's acquaintance refuse to meet with her students?
(a) He is trying to minimize contact with people.
(b) He does not want to get Nafisi in trouble with the authorities.
(c) He does not like female students.
(d) He is unhappy with Nafisi teaching literature to these girls.

2. Where is Nafisi's apartment located?
(a) Above a restaurant.
(b) Across from an ex-American hospital.
(c) In the middle of a mountain range.
(d) On the campus of the University of Tehran.

3. Why does Nafisi remind the students of Nabokov?
(a) Nabokov believed that a totalitarian government offered students the chance to be free.
(b) Because Nabokov wrote in an unsettled environment like the setting the students are in.
(c) Because Nabokov symbolizes the kind of writer that the students want be become.
(d) Nabokov is Nafisi's favorite author.

4. In Chapter 15, how does the study group define a villain?
(a) One who molests a child.
(b) One who bows to authority figures.
(c) One who lacks curiosity about other people, being only interested in his/her vision of other people.
(d) One who knowingly challenges the religious culture of the ruling party.

5. How did Nafisi learn of her father's arrest?
(a) The government came to her house.
(b) Her father told her many years later.
(c) She was pulled out of her sophomore class in Switzerland.
(d) She heard her mother telling her sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nafisi consider Humbert, Lolita's molester, such a frightening character?

2. Nassrin describes herself as being in the middle of what for her whole life?

3. What do the class members take turns doing each week?

4. Why is Nabokov's "Invitation to a Beheading" the inspiration for Nafisi to form the study group?

5. The desire for what intangible object drives Nafisi's students?

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