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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the everyday lives of Nafisi and her students as a result of the secret class?
(a) Their everyday lives become less tolerable.
(b) Their everyday lives begin to invade the study group meetings.
(c) Their everyday lives are untouched by the secret class.
(d) Their everyday lives take on the quality of fiction and make-believe.

2. Why does Nafisi's apartment lack matching furniture and fancy window dressings?
(a) Her mother does not believe those items are appropriate for women.
(b) She is too poor to afford material possessions.
(c) She is more concerned with literature and the inner world of knowledge.
(d) Her belongings were taken by revolutionaries.

3. Who demands entry into Nafisi's house?
(a) The ayatollahs.
(b) Members of the Revolutionary Committee.
(c) Students from Nafisi's study group.
(d) Nafisi's children.

4. How does Nafisi's acquaintance describe her students?
(a) As "fine people."
(b) As "pretty women."
(c) As "good students."
(d) As "nice girls."

5. Why does the literature professor dislike Manna and Nima?
(a) They write papers that disagree with his views.
(b) They dislike reading the literature he assigns.
(c) They are not able to write well.
(d) They are falling in love during his class.

6. What does Nafisi see reflected in the mirror?
(a) A hospital.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her students.
(d) Mountains.

7. Where does Nafisi write her class notes?
(a) Small scraps of paper.
(b) Big diaries.
(c) Pocket calendars.
(d) Lined paper tablets.

8. Why are Nafisi's students like ghosts when they are walking through the streets of Tehran?
(a) Their black clothes hide them when they are walking at night.
(b) Because they wear a veil, their skin is very white like a ghost.
(c) They have learned to walk with a gliding motion, barely touching the ground.
(d) They hope to be invisible to the militia and arrive at their destination without confrontation.

9. How do the Iranian authorities view the country's past?
(a) The Iranian leaders see the country's past as an example for other societies.
(b) Iran's past is used as a foundation for the development of a more modern society.
(c) Iran's past is considered important in the development of a perfect Koranic society.
(d) The past is irrelevant to the leaders who want to establish a perfect Koranic society.

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

11. What object does Nafisi refer to when she first describes the students in her study group?
(a) Tehran.
(b) Her apartment.
(c) A photograph.
(d) A veil.

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

13. Why does Nafisi's acquaintance refuse to meet with her students?
(a) He does not like female students.
(b) He is trying to minimize contact with people.
(c) He is unhappy with Nafisi teaching literature to these girls.
(d) He does not want to get Nafisi in trouble with the authorities.

14. Who is Negar?
(a) Nafisi's mother.
(b) Nafisi's daughter.
(c) Nafisi's sister.
(d) One of Nafisi's students.

15. How does Nafisi feel about revealing herself in class?
(a) As if she were having her insides pulled out.
(b) As if she were being forced to examine herself.
(c) As if she were surrounded by her best friends.
(d) As if she were being undressed in front of strangers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 9, what does Yassi ask Nafisi ?

2. Where do the intruders to Nafisi's house go once they are in her house?

3. Why does Nafisi return to the two photographs of her students in Chapter 7?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 16, what are Nafisi and her male acquaintance discussing?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 18, what does Nafisi ask the reader to imagine?

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