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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 right does Nafisi fantasize about being added to the Bill of Rights?
(a) The right to not wear a veil or head scarf.
(b) The right to teach Western literature in Iran.
(c) The right to free access to imagination.
(d) The right to travel in and out of Iran without fear.

2. In Part 2, Chapter 24, why do the demonstrators move toward the hospital?
(a) The bodies of the wounded and dead students are supposedly at the hospital, and demonstrators are concerned the police will transfer the bodies.
(b) The hospital is at the top of a hill, so they can see the militia approaching from any direction.
(c) The demonstrators are seriously injured by the police and need medical treatment.
(d) Because the hospital is a neutral site, and they will be safe there.

3. In Part 4, Chapter 1, what does Sanaz announce she is going to do?
(a) Stop coming to the study club.
(b) Become a teacher.
(c) Go to America and enroll in a university.
(d) Go to Turkey and see a man.

4. In Part 3, Chapter 3, what do Laleh and Nafisi discuss at the restaurant?
(a) Laleh's expulsion from the University of Tehran.
(b) Nafisi's expulsion from the University of Tehran.
(c) The actions of the Committee on Cultural Revolution.
(d) Laleh's decision to become a seamstress.

5. What does Nafisi teach during her first semester as a professor at the University of Tehran?
(a) A small study group related to the works of Nabokov.
(b) Classes in English as a Second Language.
(c) A large seminar called Research.
(d) A large seminar using banned books.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mina's job?

2. Why does Yassi walk faster then suddenly stop when she is out with a gentleman caller?

3. What is the question Nafisi asks of all married couples?

4. Who is Ramin?

5. In Part 4, Chapter 20, what does Nassrin decide to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Nafisi conflicted about returning to full-time teaching?

2. In Part 3, Chapter 14, why does Nafisi describe her students in such detail?

3. How has Miss Ruhi changed since her introduction in Part 3, Chapter 14?

4. Why does a university staff member describe the Ayatollah's funeral as an event?

5. Nafisi first mentions the magician in Part 1, Chapter 10. Why does she wait until Part 2, Chapter 20, to describe him more fully?

6. What does Nafisi mean by her statement that she "left Iran, but Iran did not leave me?"

7. What is the impact of Iran's war with Iraq?

8. Why does Nafisi call Catherine in "Washington Square" the inverse of our ideas about what a heroine should be?

9. What does it mean to be complicit in one's own crimes?

10. Why does Nafisi add an epilogue to the end of the memoir?

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