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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, on what floor of an apartment building do Parvana and her family live?

2. In Chapter 5, what is the smell that Mrs. Weera noticed in Parvana's family's apartment?

3. In Chapter 5, how much rice does Parvana buy at the grocery shop?

4. Whose clothes will Parvana wear in Chapter 5?

5. In Chapter 3, what is the name of the prison where Mother and Parvana walk?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what are Mother and Nooria always doing and why?

2. What happens in Chapter 6 when Parvana goes to the market dressed as a boy?

3. In Chapter 1, why is Parvana not to be outside?

4. In Chapter 2, what is the inside of the apartment like where Parvana and her family live?

5. In Chapter 5, what happens when Parvana goes to the market?

6. In Chapter 6, how does Parvana feel and see herself after her hair is cut?

7. In Chapter 3, what order of the Taliban did Father refuse to follow and why?

8. In Chapter 4, how does Ali act when his mother is sleeping so much?

9. In Chapter 2, how does Parvana have to get water for the family?

10. In Chapter 4, what did Mother do after returning home from the prison?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Parvana and Shauzia temporarily take on a difficult job to earn money quickly. What job do the girls perform? Why is the activity questionable? What does the author communicate about the morality of digging up bones from graves and selling them?

Essay Topic 2

Nooria and Parvana make sacrifices. What sacrifices do the girls make? What do those sacrifices reveal about the necessity of sacrifices during crisis situations?

Essay Topic 3

Changes in the family allow them more opportunity to do things. What changes are there in Parvana’s family that allows them to have some freedom? What opportunities for freedom are there under the Taliban?

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