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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the women at Shakila's celebration do before eating in "Wedding"?

2. What does Shakila do during her feast in "Wedding"?

3. Why does Sultan have to take such a long trip in "The Business Trip"?

4. What are Shakila and Wakil covered with during their wedding ceremony?

5. Who controls the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sultan's apartment building often go without electricity?

2. Why does Bibi Gul receive a piece of cloth after Wakil's wedding?

3. What is Shakila's life like at school?

4. What story about Saliqa is told in "Suicide and Song"?

5. What is Shakila doing in "Billowing, Winding, Fluttering"?

6. How does the Taliban affect Shakila's life?

7. What does Sultan do when he wants to take a new wife in "The Proposal"?

8. What traditions are followed at Shakila's wedding?

9. What happens when Sultan marries Sharifa?

10. What is Sultan's history with selling books?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do the historical events in this book affect Sultan? How do they affect the development of the other people and the plot?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Sultan's apartment with one other setting in "The Bookseller of Kabul".

Essay Topic 3

How are burkas symbolic in this book? Trace their history throughout "The Bookseller of Kabul".

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