Chapters 31-35
Chapters 36-40
Chapters 41-45
Chapters 46-51
Literary Devices
100
What car metaphor does Rasheed apply to Laila based on her beauty, potential, and use?
What is a Benz (Mercedes Benz)?
100
What do Laila and Mariam attempt to do and get caught doing?
What is they try to run away?
100
When Rasheed’s shop catches on fire, what happens to their family?
What is they are going hungry.
100
What hypocrisy do the Talibs showcase by pretending to protect women’s honor but in reality by committing this action at the courtyard?
What is they spy on them while they are naked.
100
Because of her change from originally being jealous of Laila to growing to love her, what type of character does Mariam become and exhibit based on this trait alone?
What is she is a dynamic character?
200
Laila learns how Rasheed’s son, the one he had with his former wife, died and that it was Rasheed’s wife. What was Rasheed doing that caused him to neglect his fatherly reponsibilities?
What is he was crying drunk?
200
What does Laila feel is humorous about the advice that the police offers her?
What is he says he is supposed to maintain order, but Rasheed will punish them in disorderly way.
200
What does Laila infer when she sees and is reunited with Tariq?
What is Rasheed paid a man to lie about Tariq's death?
200
Despite her suffering for most of her life, what does Mariam contemplate before execution?
What is regret for her unkindness (she didn't do anything to Rasheed to deserve her mistreatment.)
200
What theme is evident based on Mariam’s death?
What is more people have died in the name of religion than for any other reason in mankind’s history.
300
To whom is Rasheed referring to when he says that some people can’t be dead enough (247)?
Who is Tariq?
300
What ironic action does Rasheed perform when he goes to watch the scheduled punishments?
What is he buys and drinks a Pepsi.
300
How do Aziza, Laila, Tariq, and Zalmai all react to their newfound freedom and lives?
What is they are all haunted by their pasts.
300
When the rivaling factions are fighting against one another, Laila says that the sound that she dreads most is the whistling before a bomb explodes. This is the last sound she hears before the explosion. What literary device does Hosseini employs when he initially mentions whistling?
What is foreshadowing?
400
Who or what are the two new flowers that had unexpectedly sprouted in Mariam’s life (256)?
Who is Laila and Aziza?
400
What does Mariam wish she had done now that she knows more about motherhood?
What is she wishes she had been a better daughter to Nana?
400
How are Laila and Mariam like the earthquakes that Aziza learns about at the orphanage?
What is they both have deep conflicts and wounds, but only show minor tremors on the surface.
400
What irony is evident given what Mariam has done?
What is even though Rasheed is dead, the girls are not safe because of their setting and situation.
400
“Electric fans sat idle, almost mockingly so” is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is personification?
500
Which one of the following is NOT one of the cruel atrocities that Rasheed shares with Laila and Mariam that the mujahideen are inflicting on citizens? a. They will break into the homes of some boys and rape and their sisters and mothers. b. They are dragging young boys off the streets and forcing them to join them. c. They will torture the boys who belong to a rival militia. d. They will torture women who don’t wear the burqa by stoning them to death.
They will torture women who don’t wear the burqa by stoning them to death.
500
What does Mariam dream she is burying behind the toolshed at the end of Chapter 40?
What is Aziza?
500
10. What is ironic about Mariam’s action of deciding the course of her own life?
What is it will likely be her last?
500
Who lives in Laila’s heart, shining with a bursting radiance of a thousand suns and what is implied in the novel’s closing line?
What is Mariam lives in her heart and if they have a girl, her name will be chosen.
500
What type of irony is evident when Laila and Tariq share their first kiss: “In the midst of all this killing and looting, all this ugliness, it was a harmless thing to sit here beneath a tree and kiss Tariq. A small thing. An easily forgivable indulgence” (176)?
What is situational irony?
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