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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. In Chapter 8, what does Parvana find on her blanket after work?
(a) Bracelet.
(b) A ring.
(c) Earrings.
(d) A few beads on a string.

2. At the end of Chapter 7, what is the weather?
(a) Misty.
(b) Sunny.
(c) Windy.
(d) Rainy.

3. In Chapter 11, what do Parvana and Shauzia see happening in the sport stadium?
(a) A Taliban firing squad.
(b) People beheaded.
(c) Thieves being punished.
(d) People fighting.

4. In Chapter 8, what does Parvana find on her blanket when she is about to shake it out and go home?
(a) Green embroidered wool.
(b) White enbroidered wool.
(c) Gray embroidered wool.
(d) Yellow embroidered wool.

5. In Chapter 8, what does Maryam wear on her feet?
(a) Layers of cloth.
(b) Old sneakers.
(c) Old shoes.
(d) Sandals.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 9, who does Shauzia say in her family disappeared after being arrested?

2. In Chapter 9, where did Shauzia's brother go to look for work?

3. In Chapter 7, how long does Parvana sit in the market before someone stops to have her read?

4. In Chapter 8, what does a man tell Parvana when she mistakes him for her father?

5. In Chapter 12, what fruit does Parvana bring home for her family?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 7, what does Parvana find on her blanket at the end of a day that she thinks comes from the window behind where she sits every day?

2. In Chapter 10, what does the cemetery look and smell like where Parvana and Shauzia go to dig up bones?

3. In Chapter 7, what is Parvana asked to read, and who asks her to read?

4. In Chapter 7, what item does Mrs. Weera still have that she is proud of?

5. What does Nooria say in Chapter 11 when Mother says that Parvana cannot continue digging up bones?

6. In Chapter 10, what does Shauzia say when Parvana asks if the people buried in the cemetery would mind being dug up?

7. In Chapter 12, what is it like where Shauzia lives?

8. In Chapter 7, where is Mrs. Weera living before she moves to lives with Parvana's family, and what does she say about the remaining members of her family?

9. In Chapter 8, what does Parvana discover an old classmate doing in the market?

10. In Chapter 8, where does Shauzia live and with whom?

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