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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 36-40.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are people of Kabul punished each week on Fridays by the Taliban for disobeying orders in Chapter 38?
(a) Gardens of Babur.
(b) Paghman Gardens.
(c) Ghazi Stadium.
(d) Chaman-e-Hozori.

2. Who is the warlord of the Pashtun forces in West Kabul that is described in Chapter 24 as fighting against the Hazaras of the Wahdat faction in 1992?
(a) Abdul Rashid Dostum.
(b) Sayyaf.
(c) Ahmad Shah Massoud.
(d) Muhsin.

3. Who was the leader of the Islamic Jihad Council that formed following Afghanistan's independence?
(a) Queen Gauhar Shad.
(b) Sibghatullah Mojadidi.
(c) Ahmad Shah Massoud.
(d) Abdul Rashid Dostum.

4. What is the name of Fariba's eldest son?
(a) Noor.
(b) Muhsin.
(c) Ahmad.
(d) Hakim.

5. When does Chapter 23 begin?
(a) September, 1990.
(b) April, 1992.
(c) March, 1995.
(d) July, 1989.

Short Answer Questions

1. What American President does Rasheed describe resigning over a scandal in Chapter 10?

2. What does Hakim dream of living near in the novel?

3. On what date was Mir Akbar Khyber assassinated?

4. Chapter 22 begins in January of what year?

5. When does the narrator say that Shahr-e-Zohak was built into a fortress to defend the valley from invaders?

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