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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 is the name of the elderly midwife that helped to deliver Laila?
(a) Shanzai.
(b) Wajma.
(c) Muhsin.
(d) Jami.

2. Who does Jalil say "had raised the famous minarets as her loving ode to Herat back in the fifteenth century" in Chapter 1?
(a) Queen Gauhar Shad.
(b) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
(c) Abdul Rashid Dostum.
(d) Jami.

3. Who discovers Mariam in a pool of blood after she has miscarried in Chapter 13?
(a) Laila.
(b) Ahmad.
(c) Hakim.
(d) Fariba.

4. Chapter 33 begins in the spring of what year?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1997.
(d) 1996.

5. How old is Laila when Rasheed suggests that he marry her?
(a) 14.
(b) 16.
(c) 18.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Mariam born?

2. What Moghul emperor asked to be buried in Kabul, according to Jalil in Chapter 8?

3. What word used in the narrative refers to a woman's honor?

4. How much money does Laila hope to steal from Rasheed before she runs away in Chapter 34?

5. How old was Mariam's Nana when her mother died?

(see the answer key)

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