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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. In what year does Chapter 12 begin?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1974.
2. What disorder did Mariam's Nana develop before she was to wed at the age of fifteen?
(a) Epilepsy.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) Anorexia.
(d) Bulimia.
3. What movie does Mariam beg Jalil to take her to for her fifteenth birthday?
(a) Cinderella.
(b) Titanic.
(c) It's a Wonderful Life.
(d) Pinocchio.
4. What is the name of the elderly midwife that helped to deliver Laila?
(a) Shanzai.
(b) Wajma.
(c) Muhsin.
(d) Jami.
5. What is the first meal that Mariam cooks for Rasheed as his wife?
(a) Kabuli Palau.
(b) Ashak.
(c) Serkah Pulao.
(d) Daal.
Short Answer Questions
1. How much older is Hakim than Fariba?
2. What caused Tariq to lose one of his legs?
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. Who is the village arbab of Gul Daman that visits Mariam and her mother once a month or so during Mariam's childhood?
5. Who had supposedly overseen the burial of Fariba's sons, according to the messenger that relates their death?
Short Essay Questions
1. What discrepancy is seen between Nana's and Jalil's descriptions of Mariam's birth in Chapter 2?
2. What circumstances lend themselves to Mariam's feelings of isolation in Chapter 10?
3. How is Laila's relationship with Tariq described in Chapter 18? How does Laila feel about Tariq's family?
4. What loss does Mariam suffer in Chapter 13? How does this loss affect her?
5. How does the narrator describe Mariam's discovery that she was an unwanted child in Chapter 1?
6. How has Fariba's behavior changed in Chapter 20? What does Laila make of these changes?
7. What leads to the change in Fariba's behavior in Chapter 23? How does her behavior change?
8. What literary allusion does the author employ in Chapter 21? How does this allusion relate metaphorically to A Thousand Splendid Suns?
9. How is the wedding ceremony described in Chapter 8? Who is present for the wedding?
10. How has Mariam's relationship with Rasheed evolved in Chapter 14? What has led to these changes?
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