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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) Apple trees.
(c) Palm trees.
(d) Almond trees.

2. What jobs does Uncle Nabi do for a living?
(a) He is a butcher and a clerk.
(b) He is a cook and a chauffeur.
(c) He is a maitre d' and bartender.
(d) He is a taxi driver and cashier.

3. Where did Baba Ayub live, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Kandahar.
(b) Jalalabad.
(c) Maidan Sabz.
(d) Herat.

4. What do "divs" and "jinns" refer to in the context of the novel?
(a) Whales and sea urchins.
(b) Monsters and spirits.
(c) Fish and birds.
(d) Goats and sheep.

5. Why does Abdullah's father hit him in the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) To punish him for stealing.
(b) To punish him for talking back to his stepmother.
(c) To make him go home.
(d) To punish him for bragging.

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 old was Abdullah when his mother died?

4. Where does the storyteller describe more fortunate villages in relation to the one in which Baba Ayub lived in Chapter 1?

5. What does Masooma convince Parwana to do in the desert in Chapter 3?

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