Reading Lolita in Tehran Quizzes

Reading Lolita in Tehran Quiz 1

1 What is the name of Part I of "Reading Lolita in Tehran"?
James

Gatsby

Austen

Lolita
2 In what year does Part I of "Reading Lolita in Tehran" begin?
1995

1955

1981

1979
3 Who is the only student who didn't "make it to the end" (5)?
Sanaz

Nassrin

Mahshid

Manna
4 Who was Nafisi's only private male student?
Nassrin

Sanaz

Nima

Mahshid
5 Who was the youngest student in Nafisi's private class?
Mitra

Nassrin

Yassi

Nima
6 What is the difference between the two pictures Nafisi has of her students?
In one they are serious, while in the other they are smiling.

In one they are wearing head coverings, while in the other their heads are uncovered.

Nassrin is in one photo, but not the other.

Nima is in one photo, but not the other.
7 What was "the theme of the class" (6)?
The relation between memory and reality

The relation between Western literature and Persian classical literature

The relation between men and women in pre- and post-revolutionary Iran

The relation between fiction and reality
8 On what day of the week did Nafisi's private class meet?
Thursday

Sunday

Saturday

Monday
9 Where in Nafisi's house was the class held?
The kitchen

The living room

The bedroom

The basement
10 What was the name of Nafisi's husband?
Nima

Boris

Marcos

Bijan
11 Where did Nafisi resign from the position of professor?
University of Tehran

University of Allameh Tabatabai

University of Switzerland

University of Ayatollah
12 Which student was often dropped off by an "obnoxious brother" (15)?
Mahshid

Nima

Sanaz

Nassrin
13 What was the first text read for Nafisi's private class?
"A Thousand and One Nights"

"Lolita"

"The Great Gatsby"

"Pride and Prejudice"
14 Who invented the word "upsilamba"?
Nafisi

Austen

James

Nabokov
15 What irony centered around the film censor in Iran until 1994?
He was blind.

He was not Muslim.

He was deaf.

He was not Iranian.
16 What did male, but not female, students walk through to enter the university?
A curtained door

A green gate

A metal detector

A wooden door
17 Who was "the magician"?
Vladimir Nabokov

Nafisi's husband

Nafisi's only male student

An old man Nafisi befriends
18 Who was Tahereh Khanoom?
Nafisi's child

Nafisi's maid

Nafisi's mother

Nafisi's student
19 What character danced with their jailer?
Cincinnatus

Sanaz

Nasifi

Lolita
20 Which student was subjected to a virginity test after going away for a two-day trip with female friends?
Sanaz

Nima

Yassi

Manna
21 What contraband item did many Iranians yearn for and even purchase?
Flowers

Computers

Pastries

Satellite dishes
22 Why did guards come to Nafisi's door and ask to enter her house?
They found out her mother has been making Turkish coffee.

They found out about their satellite dish.

They wanted to arrest her daughter for wearing inappropriate clothing.

They wanted to arrest the man living next door.
23 What is Part II of Reading Lolita in Tehran called?
James

Lolita

Gatsby

Austen
24 How does Nafisi open Part II of Reading Lolita in Tehran?
A scene of one of her students being subjected to a "virginity test"

A scene of her children losing their memories of Tehran

A scene of "the magician" refusing to meet her students

A scene of a woman in the Tehran airport
25 Whose portrait was on the wall of the airport when Nafisi returns to Tehran?
Reza Shah

Ayatollah Khomeini

Mohammed Reza Shah

Bijan

Lines in question from Part I?

I chose seven of my best and most committed students and invited them to come to my home every Thursday morning to discuss literature. They were all women-to teach a mixed class in the privacy of my home was too...

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How is the rhetoric that both authors use effective in conveying their points of view?

I'm sorry, you mention two authors, Nafisi and .....?

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In Iran during this time, show trials and executions were routinely aired on television; how did Nafisi feel when she saw the arrest of the general who had been responsible for the framing and imprisonment of her own father?

From the text:

One night at home I went to the kitchen for a glass of water and saw on television the battered and bruised face of the former head of the dreaded Ministry of National Security and Information, a general known for his cruelty. He...

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