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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through No Admission to Heaven, Billowing, Fluttering, Winding, pg. 81-93.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Shakila ask Wakil about working at their engagement party?
(a) If he will make enough money to support them.
(b) If she can start her own business.
(c) If his job will force them to move.
(d) If he will allow her to work.

2. Why is Shakila shopping in "Billowing, Fluttering, Winding"?
(a) She is trying to spend all her money.
(b) She is preparing for her wedding.
(c) She is going on vacation.
(d) It is her sister's birthday.

3. How did a man visit Jamila while she was with her brother-in-law?
(a) He crawled through the window.
(b) He waited on the back porch.
(c) He broke the key hole and opened the door.
(d) He opened the cellar door.

4. In "Suicide and Song", how do the Afghan women express their love?
(a) In paintings.
(b) In weavings.
(c) In diaries.
(d) In poems.

5. How many decrees does the narrator say the Taliban passed in 1996?
(a) 16.
(b) 15.
(c) 17.
(d) 18.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Sultan buy the textbooks from a foreign publisher in "The Business Trip"?

2. What does talking about Saliqa remind the women of in "Crime and Punishment"?

3. How does the narrator describe the women in "Billowing, Fluttering, Winding"?

4. Why is Sultan able to have books printed in "The Business Trip"?

5. How many girls does Sultan select to choose his wife from in "The Proposal"?

(see the answer key)

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