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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the narrator say that Shahr-e-Zohak was built into a fortress to defend the valley from invaders?
(a) 200 years ago.
(b) 500 years ago.
(c) 900 years ago.
(d) 300 years ago.

2. In what year was Mariam born?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1972.

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

4. When did Fariba and her husband move to Kabul?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1956.

5. Who had supposedly overseen the burial of Fariba's sons, according to the messenger that relates their death?
(a) Habib Khan.
(b) Mullah Faizullah.
(c) Ahmad Shah Massoud.
(d) Queen Gauhar Shad.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mariam's mother commit suicide?

2. What is the name of Fariba's 10-year-old son that she introduces to Mariam at the tandoor line in Chapter 10?

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

4. Tariq's family is of what ethnic group in Afghanistan?

5. What does Tariq do to the boy that shot Laila with the water pistol in Chapter 18?

(see the answer key)

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