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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapters 15 - 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 12 takes place during which season?
(a) Fall.
(b) Winter.
(c) Summer.
(d) Spring.

2. Where are Nafisi's children when Chapter 19 begins?
(a) Tehran.
(b) Jail.
(c) At a restaurant.
(d) Washington.

3. Why does Nafisi include the scene from "Invitation to a Beheading" in Chapter 22?
(a) The scene was just studied in Nafisi's study group.
(b) Nafisi believes that scene shows how her students will be mistreated if they are thrown in jail.
(c) She is making the point that all governments are corrupt.
(d) It illustrates the way totalitarian governments force victims to participate in crimes against themselves.

4. What does the class strive to do in their study of literature?
(a) Discover ways to question religious authorities.
(b) Discover truths about beauty and human nature.
(c) Find answers about political ideology.
(d) Learn how to be better writers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first work Nafisi and her students in the study group discuss?

2. Who is the villain in "Lolita"?

3. In Chapter 20, Nafisi tells a story about what event that happened to Manna and Nima?

4. How does Nafisi's acquaintance describe her students?

5. What political event described at the beginning of Chapter 9 sets the tone for the subsequent actions of Nafisi's students?

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