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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Laila's progressive but strict schoolteacher in Chapter 16?
(a) Ahmad.
(b) Muhsin.
(c) Jami.
(d) Shanzai.

2. What does "Shahr-e-Zohak" translate to in English?
(a) The Red City.
(b) The Green City.
(c) The Blue City.
(d) The White City.

3. What name is used in Chapter 21 to describe the Afghan Pashtun wanderers that are primarily from the Ghilzai tribal confederacy?
(a) Whirling dervishes.
(b) Koochi nomads.
(c) Deh Mazang.
(d) Shindand nomads.

4. What Moghul emperor asked to be buried in Kabul, according to Jalil in Chapter 8?
(a) Muhsin.
(b) Mullah Faizullah.
(c) Babur.
(d) Jami.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Chapter 12 begin?

2. What caused Tariq to lose one of his legs?

3. What mountain does Rasheed point out to Mariam from the front window of his house in Chapter 9?

4. 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?

5. What is the name of the elderly midwife that helped to deliver Laila?

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