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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Hakim dream of living near in the novel?
(a) The equator.
(b) The sea.
(c) The desert.
(d) The mountains.
2. Who had supposedly overseen the burial of Fariba's sons, according to the messenger that relates their death?
(a) Mullah Faizullah.
(b) Habib Khan.
(c) Queen Gauhar Shad.
(d) Ahmad Shah Massoud.
3. What American President does Rasheed describe resigning over a scandal in Chapter 10?
(a) Bill Clinton.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
4. What name is used in Chapter 21 to describe the Afghan Pashtun wanderers that are primarily from the Ghilzai tribal confederacy?
(a) Deh Mazang.
(b) Shindand nomads.
(c) Koochi nomads.
(d) Whirling dervishes.
5. Where has Tariq's family gone to visit his paternal uncle in Chapter 16?
(a) Shindand.
(b) Gul Daman.
(c) Ghazni.
(d) Takht-e-Safar.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Tariq's father's profession?
2. When did Ahmad and Noor leave to fight the Soviets, according to the narrator in Chapter 16?
3. What Moghul emperor asked to be buried in Kabul, according to Jalil in Chapter 8?
4. What is the Farsi speaking Tajik region northeast of Kabul that Fariba's family is from?
5. In what year does Chapter 12 begin?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is Laila's relationship with Tariq described in Chapter 18? How does Laila feel about Tariq's family?
2. What discrepancy is seen between Nana's and Jalil's descriptions of Mariam's birth in Chapter 2?
3. What news does Tariq relate to Laila in Chapter 25? How does Laila respond?
4. What political events are described by the narrator in Chapter 15? How do these events affect the citizens of Afghanistan?
5. How does the narrator describe Mariam's discovery that she was an unwanted child in Chapter 1?
6. How has Mariam adjusted to married life by the beginning of Chapter 11?
7. How would you describe Mariam's introduction to married life in Chapter 9?
8. What does Hakim reveal to Laila when they are alone at the top of the statues in Chapter 21?
9. How is the wedding ceremony described in Chapter 8? Who is present for the wedding?
10. What circumstances lend themselves to Mariam's feelings of isolation in Chapter 10?
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