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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What symbol does Nafisi think of when she thinks of Lolita?
(a) A helpless little girl.
(b) A butterfly pinned to the wall.
(c) A school report card.
(d) A school uniform.
2. How does Nafisi feel about revealing herself in class?
(a) As if she were having her insides pulled out.
(b) As if she were surrounded by her best friends.
(c) As if she were being forced to examine herself.
(d) As if she were being undressed in front of strangers.
3. How does the professor solve problems of literary criticism?
(a) By telling students that literary criticism is not important.
(b) By asking the class to vote on matters of interpretation.
(c) By finding critical essays that support his viewpoint.
(d) By talking to his colleagues on the University faculty.
4. What secret does Nassrin tell Nafisi?
(a) She was leaving for America.
(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 had been married and divorced.
5. What happens to the everyday lives of Nafisi and her students as a result of the secret class?
(a) Their everyday lives begin to invade the study group meetings.
(b) Their everyday lives are untouched by the secret class.
(c) Their everyday lives take on the quality of fiction and make-believe.
(d) Their everyday lives become less tolerable.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter 9, what does Nafisi do to answer Yassi's question?
2. At the beginning of Chapter 16, what are Nafisi and her male acquaintance discussing?
3. Why are Nafisi and her students in the room?
4. What are the biggest threats to an idealized vision of an individual or a country?
5. What does Nafisi believe is the main point of "Lolita"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the relationship between the imaginary rain shower and the meeting of Nafisi's class?
2. Why is it difficult to find a copy of "Lolita" in Tehran?
3. Why do Nafisi and her students feel so strongly about Nabokov and his works?
4. What is the purpose of the dreams that Nafisi describes?
5. In Part 1, Chapter 18, the room where the class meets becomes a character. How does Nafisi describe the room?
6. Why does Nafisi agree with Nabokov's statement that every great novel is a fairy tale?
7. Azin asks the group if a woman has the same right as a man to enjoy sex. Why does this question surprise the group?
8. Why does Nafisi describe the three types of women portrayed in "A Thousand and One Nights"?
9. Why does Nafisi include Part 1, Chapter 12 in her memoir?
10. Why does Nafisi ask her children about their memories of Iran?
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