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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: "Spring 1949".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Baba Ayub announce as his intentions when the div opened the gate to his fort in Chapter 1?
(a) He intended to burn down the fort.
(b) He intended to retrieve his son.
(c) He intended to take his wife away.
(d) He intended to kill the div.

2. How did Abdullah's mother die?
(a) She drowned in the river.
(b) She was killed in a fire.
(c) She died in childbirth.
(d) She was in a car accident.

3. What was found in Masooma's clenched fist after she fell from the tree?
(a) An engagement ring.
(b) A flower.
(c) Ten little leaves.
(d) A four-leafed clover.

4. Abdullah asks his father in Chapter 2 why who did not drive them to Kabul?
(a) Markos.
(b) Iqbar.
(c) Suleiman.
(d) Uncle Nabi.

5. What jobs does Uncle Nabi do for a living?
(a) He is a maitre d' and bartender.
(b) He is a cook and a chauffeur.
(c) He is a butcher and a clerk.
(d) He is a taxi driver and cashier.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Abdullah and Pari's stepmother?

2. How is Masooma's behavior as an infant described in Chapter 3?

3. On what day of the week does Parwana visit the graves of her parents?

4. Whose bicycle does Masooma recall wrecking in Chapter 3?

5. Where does the storyteller describe more fortunate villages in relation to the one in which Baba Ayub lived in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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