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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 3, Chapter 14, which former student comes to see Nafisi?
2. According to Zarrin, when is a novel moral?
3. Who delays Nafisi's expulsion from the university?
4. In Part 3, Chapter 4, who asks to meet with Nafisi?
5. What political event described at the beginning of Chapter 9 sets the tone for the subsequent actions of Nafisi's students?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Nafisi think teaching "The Great Gatsby" was the right choice for that time and place?
2. In Part 3, Chapter 14, why does Nafisi describe her students in such detail?
3. Why does Nafisi describe herself as becoming irrelevant?
4. How has Miss Ruhi changed since her introduction in Part 3, Chapter 14?
5. Why does the magician tell Nafisi she should return to teaching?
6. Why does the magician tell Nafisi to stop blaming the Islamic Republic for all her problems?
7. Why does Nafisi add an epilogue to the end of the memoir?
8. Why does a university staff member describe the Ayatollah's funeral as an event?
9. What are the similarities between the lives of the characters in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" and the lives of Nafisi's students?
10. Why does Nafisi refer to the concert she attends as a parody of the real thing?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
"Reading Lolita in Tehran" centers around literature, a written form of art. Choose another art form (dance, music, visual art) and discuss the use of that art form in all four sections of the book. What is the role or roles of art in the Iranian Islamic Republic? What role or roles does art play in the fictional works Nafisi teaches? What role or roles does art play in the life of Nafisi? In the lives of her students?
Essay Topic 2
In Part 3, Chapter 18, Nafisi describes a "perfectly equipped failure." In Part 3, Chapter 26, Nafisi provides characteristics of a traditional heroine. Using the descriptions and characteristics provided in these chapters, write an essay that addresses the following questions:
1) Would Laleh be considered a heroine or a perfectly equipped failure?
2) Would Razieh be considered a heroine or a perfectly equipped failure?
3) Which does Nafisi consider more worthy of admiration, a heroine or a perfectly equipped failure?
Essay Topic 3
In Section I, Chapter 4, Mahsid says "everyday life does not have fewer horrors than prison." Choose 3 characters from the book and write an essay that illustrates the truthfulness or untruthfulness of this statement from each of their perspectives. What are their everyday horrors? How do these characters respond to them?
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