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 earn good grades in all their classes.
(d) She chooses students who can afford to pay her on a regular basis.

2. Why do Ministry of Education officials ask the faculty at Nafisi's school if they thought they were in Switzerland?
(a) Because Switzerland has schools with conservative values just like the conservative values of the University of Tehran.
(b) Because the officials believe the University of Tehran is too conservative and should be more like schools in Switzerland.
(c) Because the University of Tehran is the most liberal campus in Iran, and Switzerland is the byword for Western lax and decadent behavior.
(d) Because Switzerland is the model for the type of government the Ministry of Education is trying to establish.

3. Who was Nafisi's father?
(a) The youngest mayor of Tehran in pre-revolutionary Iran.
(b) A famous author.
(c) A troubled businessman.
(d) The director of a high school in Switzerland.

4. Why is Nabokov's "Invitation to a Beheading" the inspiration for Nafisi to form the study group?
(a) Nafisi is inspired by Nabokov's characters who conform to totalitarian regimes.
(b) Nabokov wrote about conditions in post-revolutionary Iran.
(c) Nabokov symbolizes the banality of Western thought.
(d) Nafisi sees connections between Nabokov's world and post-revolutionary Iran.

5. What subject do both Mike Gold and F. Scott Fitzgerald write about?
(a) Dreams, specifically the American Dream.
(b) Loss, specifically the loss of innocence.
(c) The morality of the wealthy.
(d) The value in being poor.