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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 48-51.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Tariq's goat in Chapter 44?
(a) Shanzai.
(b) Alyona.
(c) Wajma.
(d) Zaman.

2. Who is described in Chapter 37 as "a mysterious, illiterate, one-eyed recluse" that leads the Taliban?
(a) Sibghatullah Mojadidi.
(b) Ahmad Shah Massoud.
(c) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
(d) Mullah Omar.

3. How many Afghans were living at the Nasir Bagh refugee camp when Tariq and his parents arrived there?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 80,000.
(d) 60,000.

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?
(a) Sayyaf.
(b) Ahmad Shah Massoud.
(c) Abdul Rashid Dostum.
(d) Muhsin.

5. 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) Jami.
(c) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
(d) Abdul Rashid Dostum.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How far is Herat from Kabul?

3. What name is used in Chapter 21 to describe the Afghan Pashtun wanderers that are primarily from the Ghilzai tribal confederacy?

4. What does Mariam discover Rasheed building in the tool shed in Chapter 13?

5. Where does Laila plan to take a bus to from Kabul when she runs away in Chapter 34?

(see the answer key)

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