View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Nafisi doing at the beginning of Chapter 11?
(a) Cleaning out her office at the University of Tehran.
(b) Looking over the class notes she kept from the study sessions.
(c) Looking at the photographs of the girls.
(d) Remembering her life as a child.

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

3. Who is Negar?
(a) Nafisi's daughter.
(b) One of Nafisi's students.
(c) Nafisi's mother.
(d) Nafisi's sister.

4. Why did Nabokov say that every great novel is a fairy tale?
(a) All novels are stories with imaginary characters like fairy tales.
(b) Even though fairy tales have monsters, good ultimately wins over evil.
(c) Because all good novelists begin to write after reading fairy tales.
(d) Fairy tales and novels both demonstrate the beauty of the natural world.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Nafisi's apartment located?

2. Why is Mashid jailed?

3. What does Nafisi's study group conclude about "Lolita"?

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

5. Where does Nafisi write her class notes?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 355 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample