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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapters 12 - 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nafisi share with her male acquaintance in Chapter 16?
(a) A car ride.
(b) An ice cream cone.
(c) A ham sandwich.
(d) A dinner party.

2. Why does the male student have to meet with Nafisi separately?
(a) The female students do not like having a male student in their class.
(b) Nafisi believes that male and female students learn differently.
(c) A group with men and women would arouse suspicion from the Islamist authorities.
(d) His schedule does not permit him to meet with the female students.

3. What does Nafisi emphasize in the introductory course she teaches in Part 3?
(a) The ways novels change ideas about relationships between individuals.
(b) The ways novels are similar to contemporary life.
(c) The ways novels present women in Western culture.
(d) The ways novels emphasize religious and cultural values.

4. According to Nafisi, how is Yassi like Lolita?
(a) Both girls have had their lives changed by reading books.
(b) Both girls have been deprived of the beauty of an ordinary, everyday life.
(c) Both girls are reflections of Nafisi's personal experiences.
(d) Both girls have been raped by older men.

5. In Part 3, Chapter 6, why does Nafisi join a group?
(a) To learn more about the principles of Islam.
(b) To read and study classical Persian literature.
(c) To teach classic works of English literature.
(d) To read and study classic works of English literature.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Nabokov say that every great novel is a fairy tale?

2. What symbol does Nafisi think of when she thinks of Lolita?

3. What subject do both Mike Gold and F. Scott Fitzgerald write about?

4. In Part 3, Chapter 3, what do Laleh and Nafisi discuss at the restaurant?

5. How does Part 3, Chapter 11 begin?

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