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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 Farsi speaking Tajik region northeast of Kabul that Fariba's family is from?
(a) Gul Daman.
(b) Takht-e-Safar.
(c) Panjshir.
(d) Deh Mazang.

2. What is the punishment for adultery, according to the Taliban's flyers in Chapter 37?
(a) Your sexual organs will be removed.
(b) Imprisonment.
(c) Your hand will be cut off.
(d) You will be stoned to death.

3. What does Abdul Sharif say his wife's name is in Chapter 28?
(a) Nadia.
(b) Wajma.
(c) Jami.
(d) Shanzai.

4. What does the name Aziza mean?
(a) Rose Petal.
(b) The Queen of Stars.
(c) A Thousand Suns.
(d) The Cherished One.

5. Chapter 36 begins in the spring of what year?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1994.
(c) 1996.
(d) 1992.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is Chapter 51 set?

2. 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?

3. Who had supposedly overseen the burial of Fariba's sons, according to the messenger that relates their death?

4. In what year does Chapter 12 begin?

5. What kind of hat does Tariq wear as they watch the last Soviet convoys leave the city in Chapter 22?

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