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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. In Part 2, Chapter 15, what does Dr. A. do that causes a student to honor him many years later?
2. In the epilogue, Nafisi makes an allusion to which novel?
3. In Part 4, Chapter 1, what does Sanaz announce she is going to do?
4. Why does Nafisi include the scene from "Invitation to a Beheading" in Chapter 22?
5. What does Nafisi emphasize in the introductory course she teaches in Part 3?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens to Nafisi during her discussion with Mr. Bahri about wearing the veil?
2. 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?
3. Why does Nafisi think teaching "The Great Gatsby" was the right choice for that time and place?
4. How has Miss Ruhi changed since her introduction in Part 3, Chapter 14?
5. Why is Nafisi conflicted about returning to full-time teaching?
6. What does Nafisi do during her early years as a professor at the University of Tehran?
7. What kind of man is Mr. Bahri?
8. Why does Nafisi refer to the concert she attends as a parody of the real thing?
9. Why does Nafisi focus on Azin's painted fingernails?
10. In Part 3, Chapter 14, why does Nafisi describe her students in such detail?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
On Nafisi's first day of teaching at the University of Tehran, she asks the students what fiction should accomplish. Using examples from the text, write an essay comparing and contrasting the answer from the perspective of one of the students in Nafisi's student class and the answer from the perspective of Mr. Bahri of Mr. Nyazi.
Essay Topic 2
In Section I, Chapter 14, Nafisi quotes Nabokov: "Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form." Write an essay that addresses the following questions about Nabokov's quote: What is the meaning of this quote? Why would curiosity be considered insubordination? What is the role of curiosity in Nafisi's book? Who is described as being curious? How does Nafisi's curiosity impact her students? How does their curiosity demonstrate insubordination?
Essay Topic 3
Nafisi opens the book by asking the reader to imagine the secret class. She ends the book by wondering if she imagined the magician. Throughout the memoir, she mentions imagination in connection to the Iranian regime, to the authors of the fictional novels she teaches, and in the lives of herself and her students. What is the role of imagination in "Reading Lolita in Tehran"? How do each of those characters (the regime, the authors, Nafisi, her students) view imagination?
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