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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 8, who does Parvana see when she looks through the window near where she sits in the marketplace each day?
2. In Chapter 8, what is the medal for that Mrs. Weera shows Parvana?
3. In Chapter 12, what season is it?
4. At the end of Chapter 7, what is the weather?
5. In Chapter 12, how many girls does Nooria teach in the secret school that is started?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 10, why is Parvana afraid to go in a ruined building to go to the bathroom?
2. In Chapter 7, what item does Mrs. Weera still have that she is proud of?
3. In Chapter 7, what will be everyone's responsibilities when Mrs. Weera moves in with Parvana's family?
4. 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?
5. In Chapter 7, what is Parvana asked to read, and who asks her to read?
6. In Chapter 10, what do Parvana and Shauzia decide to do with the money they earn digging bones?
7. In Chapter 8, what does Parvana discover an old classmate doing in the market?
8. In Chapter 12, what sounds does Parvana hear the window above her place in the marketplace?
9. In Chapter 10, what does the cemetery look and smell like where Parvana and Shauzia go to dig up bones?
10. In Chapter 12, how does Parvana spend some days at home?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Parvana is 11 years old. In what way is Parvana’s story a coming-of-age story? How and why does Parvana mature and grow in the novel?
Essay Topic 2
Parvana and Nooria have to leave school when the Taliban takes over. How is Parvana’s family different from most Afghans? How does education help Parvana’s family before and after the rise of the Taliban? What is the importance of education for the family? How do their actions reveal the importance of education?
Essay Topic 3
The Taliban have made Kabul a war zone. In what way are Parvana and her family living in a war zone? What examples of inhumanity does the family observe? How does kindness and humanity exist even in those difficult times?
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