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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 type of trees did Baba Ayub grow and harvest?
(a) Pistachio trees.
(b) Almond trees.
(c) Apple trees.
(d) Palm trees.

2. What is the darkness around Parwana compared to in the end of Chapter 3?
(a) A mother's womb.
(b) The bottom of a well.
(c) Perogatory.
(d) A black tunnel.

3. What request does Masooma make when Parwana is filling her hookah in the desert in Chapter 3?
(a) To use only tobacco.
(b) To add more opium.
(c) To use less opium.
(d) To use only hashish.

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

5. Why does the narrator tell his children they will need their sleep tonight in Chapter 1?
(a) Saboor is getting married the next day.
(b) His son is going to be sold the next day.
(c) He and his daughter are traveling the next day.
(d) His daughter is getting sold the next day.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Nila take the children while her husband shows Saboor where he will be working in Chapter 2?

2. Abdullah asks his father in Chapter 2 why who did not drive them to Kabul?

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

4. What word from Chapter 2 refers to Afghan nomads primarily from the Ghilji tribal confederacy?

5. Where does Pari keep the feathers she has collected?

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