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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is a perfectly equipped failure?
2. What is Hizbollah?
3. In Part 3, Chapter 3, what do Laleh and Nafisi discuss at the restaurant?
4. Why does Nafisi include the scene from "Invitation to a Beheading" in Chapter 22?
5. What happens to Iranian writers and publishers during the mid-nineties?
Short Essay Questions
1. Nafisi first mentions the magician in Part 1, Chapter 10. Why does she wait until Part 2, Chapter 20, to describe him more fully?
2. What does Nafisi do during her early years as a professor at the University of Tehran?
3. Why does the magician tell Nafisi she should return to teaching?
4. How are the contemporary events in Iran similar to the events that Nafisi describes in her classroom?
5. Why does Nafisi get upset with students in her class at Alzahrah University (Part 3, Chapter 25)?
6. Why does Nafisi refer to the concert she attends as a parody of the real thing?
7. What are the similarities between Sanaz's experience in jail and the experience of Cincinnatus in "Invitation to a Beheading"? What are the differences between their experiences?
8. What does Nafisi mean by her statement that she "left Iran, but Iran did not leave me?"
9. What does Nassrin mean when she talks about the "ordeal of freedom" in Part 4, Chapter 20?
10. What kind of man is Mr. Bahri?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
"Reading Lolita in Tehran" is not told chronologically. The use of flashbacks and the telling of the story in segmented historical pieces distributed across multiple sections determines the shape for the novel. How does the element of time shape the reader's understanding of the memoir's major points? How does the element of time shape the reader's understanding of the characters Nafisi develops?
Essay Topic 2
Several times Nafisi refers to the individual rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Write an essay that focuses on one of those rights. How is that right viewed by the Islamist Iranian Republic? How is that right portrayed in the literature Nafisi teaches? What does Nafisi do to assert her rights?
Essay Topic 3
In his "Letter from the Birmingham Jail (April 1963)," Martin Luther King, Jr. responded to critics who called him an extremist by pointing out examples of what he called extremist behavior by famous political and religious figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and Jesus. King challenged the notion that "extremist" was a negative behavior, and stated that "the question is not whether we will be extremist but what kind of extremist will we be."
Choose 3 of the characters listed below. Provide examples of how they are portrayed as extremists in the book. Would the character have the same perspective on their behavior as the author? If not, would the character see himself or herself as an extremist? Would they consider being an extremist to be a positive or a negative characteristic?
~ Nafisi
~ The magician
~ Mr. Bahri
~ Mr. Nyazi
~ The Iranian Government
~ Nafisi's students in the study group
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