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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. Where is the narrator at the beginning of the first chapter in Part II?
(a) At the University of Tehran.
(b) At the Tehran airport.
(c) In graduate school in the United States.
(d) In her apartment in Tehran.
2. Why did Nabokov say that every great novel is a fairy tale?
(a) Fairy tales and novels both demonstrate the beauty of the natural world.
(b) Even though fairy tales have monsters, good ultimately wins over evil.
(c) All novels are stories with imaginary characters like fairy tales.
(d) Because all good novelists begin to write after reading fairy tales.
3. What secret does Nassrin tell Nafisi?
(a) She had been sexually abused by her youngest uncle.
(b) She had left her family to work for an Islamist student group.
(c) She was leaving for America.
(d) She had been married and divorced.
4. What is the main reason for Nafisi's resignation from the University of Tehran?
(a) The governance of the University is arbitrary.
(b) She wants to teach literature to smaller groups in private.
(c) The University of Tehran is too liberal.
(d) She isn't able to do the type of scholarship the government required.
5. Why does Nafisi form a friendship with Jeff?
(a) They are both actively demonstrating against the Iranian government.
(b) Because her relationship with her husband is strained, and she is lonely.
(c) They both enjoy having a friend who speaks English and has memories of America.
(d) Jeff is one of her best students, and they enjoy discussing literature together.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does the class study of "The Great Gatsby" affect Nafisi?
2. Why are Nafisi's students like ghosts when they are walking through the streets of Tehran?
3. What does the closeness of the room do to Nafisi and her students?
4. In Chapter 9, what does Nafisi do to answer Yassi's question?
5. Why does Nafisi's acquaintance refuse to meet with her students?
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