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

2. What word from Chapter 3 refers to a type of clay oven used for cooking in Southern, Central, and Western Asia?
(a) Choda.
(b) Tandoor.
(c) Ruz bacher.
(d) Sobri bacher.

3. Where does the storyteller describe more fortunate villages in relation to the one in which Baba Ayub lived in Chapter 1?
(a) To the south.
(b) To the east.
(c) To the west.
(d) To the north.

4. What feather collected by Pari is her favorite?
(a) A peacock feather.
(b) A titmouse feather.
(c) A chicken feather.
(d) A dove feather.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of feather does Pari point out on the boulder in Chapter 2?

2. How long was the mourning period after Baba Ayub lost his child to the div?

3. To what is Saboor's nose compared in Chapter 2?

4. How old was Abdullah when his mother died?

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

(see the answer key)

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