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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Chapters 13 - 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first assignment for the students in the study group?
(a) To relax and enjoy reading.
(b) To analyze the types of women found in a piece of literature.
(c) To remember what Nafisi taught in her university classes.
(d) To create a secret language using invented words.

2. What scene opens Chapter 12?
(a) The class sitting around a table in Nafisi's apartment.
(b) Nafisi teaching a class at the University.
(c) Nafisi search for books in a bookstore.
(d) The members of the class arriving at Nafisi's house.

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

4. What teaching technique does Nafisi use in conjunction with the study of "The Great Gatsby"?
(a) The class puts the novel on trial, choosing people to play the roles of lawyers, judge, and jury.
(b) She chooses students to lead the class discussion.
(c) Nafisi asks the students to construct character sketches of the novel's main characters and compare the sketches to their own lives.
(d) She teaches the novel using the Socratic method, which the students have never seen before.

5. Who is Mr. Bahir?
(a) One of Nafisi's students.
(b) A man executed for charges of being too Westernized.
(c) The department chair of the Language Department at the University of Tehran.
(d) The owner of her favorite bookstore.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nabokov's character Cincinnatus C. become a hero?

2. What is the best definition of Nabokov's term "poshlust"?

3. How is Nafisi's generation different from that of her students?

4. In Part 3, Chapter 4, who asks to meet with Nafisi?

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

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