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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 movie does Mariam beg Jalil to take her to for her fifteenth birthday?
(a) Titanic.
(b) Cinderella.
(c) Pinocchio.
(d) It's a Wonderful Life.

2. What does Tariq do to the boy that shot Laila with the water pistol in Chapter 18?
(a) He beats him with his prosthetic leg.
(b) He shoots him with a BB gun.
(c) He throws a water balloon at him.
(d) He tells the boy's mother.

3. What is the name of Fariba's 10-year-old son that she introduces to Mariam at the tandoor line in Chapter 10?
(a) Noor.
(b) Muhsin.
(c) Jami.
(d) Babur.

4. What kind of hat does Tariq wear as they watch the last Soviet convoys leave the city in Chapter 22?
(a) A fedora.
(b) A derby hat.
(c) An ushanka.
(d) A bowler.

5. Whose pictures does Fariba hold up as the last Soviet convoys exit the city in Chapter 22?
(a) Mullah Faizullah's.
(b) Ahmad's and Noor's.
(c) Queen Gauhar Shad's.
(d) Laila's and Hakim's.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mariam's mother commit suicide?

2. What word in the book refers to the five daily prayers undertaken by Muslims?

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

4. Where was the young parakeet seller from that Nana almost married when she was fifteen?

5. Jalil tells Mariam that he gave her this name because it refers to what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hakim reveal to Laila when they are alone at the top of the statues in Chapter 21?

2. How have Mariam's circumstances changed by the end of Chapter 5? What has caused Mariam's circumstances to change?

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

4. How is Fariba's (Laila's mother's) daily behavior described in Chapter 17?

5. What circumstances lend themselves to Mariam's feelings of isolation in Chapter 10?

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

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

8. How has Mariam's relationship with Rasheed evolved in Chapter 14? What has led to these changes?

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

10. What are Laila's perceptions of the funeral in Chapter 19? How does Laila grieve?

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