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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 27-35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the name Aziza mean?
(a) The Queen of Stars.
(b) Rose Petal.
(c) A Thousand Suns.
(d) The Cherished One.

2. When did Ahmad and Noor leave to fight the Soviets, according to the narrator in Chapter 16?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1983.

3. How does Mariam's mother commit suicide?
(a) She overdoses on pills.
(b) She shoots herself.
(c) She hangs herself.
(d) She slits her wrists.

4. Chapter 22 begins in January of what year?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1993.

5. Who is the village arbab of Gul Daman that visits Mariam and her mother once a month or so during Mariam's childhood?
(a) Habib Khan.
(b) Mullah Faizullah.
(c) Ahmad Shah Massoud.
(d) Sibghatullah Mojadidi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What organization sends Tariq a new prosthetic leg in Chapter 23?

2. What kind of hat does Tariq wear as they watch the last Soviet convoys leave the city in Chapter 22?

3. How old is Mariam when Rasheed marries Laila?

4. Whose pictures does Fariba hold up as the last Soviet convoys exit the city in Chapter 22?

5. What is the Farsi speaking Tajik region northeast of Kabul that Fariba's family is from?

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