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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: "February 1974".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Nila during the interview that is excerpted in Chapter 6?
(a) 59.
(b) 44.
(c) 36.
(d) 51.

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

3. How old was Omar when he died?
(a) Six.
(b) Two.
(c) Nine.
(d) Three.

4. What does the name "Nila" mean in English?
(a) Cloud.
(b) Fairy.
(c) Rose.
(d) Fawn.

5. Where is Idris studying internal medicine?
(a) Yale.
(b) U. C. Davis.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Harvard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Baba Ayub live, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

2. What does Baba Ayub throw at the wall after the div has presented him with a choice in Chapter 1?

3. Why does the narrator tell his children they will need their sleep tonight in Chapter 1?

4. What would the div do if a family refused to give it one child, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

5. How did Abdullah's mother die?

(see the answer key)

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