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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 first meal that Mariam cooks for Rasheed as his wife?
(a) Daal.
(b) Kabuli Palau.
(c) Ashak.
(d) Serkah Pulao.

2. What is Laila's nickname?
(a) Pretty Princess.
(b) Dark Whisperer.
(c) Revolutionary Girl.
(d) Plain-clothes Mary.

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

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

5. What does the word "kolba" refer to in the novel?
(a) A horse-cart.
(b) A veil.
(c) A place of religious worship.
(d) A hut.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word in the book refers to the five daily prayers undertaken by Muslims?

2. What is the name of the celebration that follows Ramadan?

3. 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?

4. When did Fariba and her husband move to Kabul?

5. What is the name of Laila's progressive but strict schoolteacher in Chapter 16?

(see the answer key)

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