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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 has Tariq's uncle in Ghazni died from in Chapter 22?
(a) A bombing raid.
(b) A heart attack.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Cancer.

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

3. Where was the young parakeet seller from that Nana almost married when she was fifteen?
(a) Takht-e-Safar.
(b) Gul Daman.
(c) Shindand.
(d) Panjshir.

4. Who does Jalil say "had raised the famous minarets as her loving ode to Herat back in the fifteenth century" in Chapter 1?
(a) Abdul Rashid Dostum.
(b) Queen Gauhar Shad.
(c) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
(d) Jami.

5. What is Tariq's father's profession?
(a) He is a carpenter.
(b) He is a farmer.
(c) He is a butcher.
(d) He is a shoemaker.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much older is Tariq than Laila in the narrative?

2. When did Ahmad and Noor leave to fight the Soviets, according to the narrator in Chapter 16?

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

4. Where does Tariq say that he and his family are going in Chapter 25?

5. Who is the elderly village Koran tutor that visits Mariam and Nana during Mariam's childhood?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Afghanistan war against the Russians factor directly into Laila's storyline in Chapter 17?

2. When does Chapter 23 take place? What is the political atmosphere like in Afghanistan at this time?

3. What are Mariam's perceptions of Kabul during Ramadan in Chapter 12?

4. How is the wedding ceremony described in Chapter 8? Who is present for the wedding?

5. What political events are described by the narrator in Chapter 15? How do these events affect the citizens of Afghanistan?

6. What loss does Mariam suffer in Chapter 13? How does this loss affect her?

7. What news is delivered to Laila's family in Chapter 19? How does Laila's mother handle this information?

8. What discrepancy is seen between Nana's and Jalil's descriptions of Mariam's birth in Chapter 2?

9. What political even does Laila's family witness in Chapter 22? What do they make of this affair?

10. How does the narrator describe Mariam's discovery that she was an unwanted child in Chapter 1?

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