Vocabulary
Dressed as a Boy
Short Answers
Lifestyle Before Dad Went to Jail
Lifestyle After Dad Went to Jail
100
What is Karachi ?
The cart on wheels that Parvana and Mrs. Weera use to move Mrs. Weera's belongings
100
Why was Parvana surprised when she ran into the teaboy?
It was actually Shauzia ; a girl from her school.
100
What are the three ways the Taliban changed the life of Parvana's family?
Houssain was killed, Father lost his leg and teaching job, Mother lost her job as a writer, Family lost their nice home and possessions, Girls cannot go to school anymore, cannot leave the house without a male escort.
100
How did Parvana's dad earn his living?
People paid him money to read their letters for them because most of the people are illiterate.
100
How did the family earn living after dad went to jail?
Paravana shaved her hair and wore boy clothes and began writing and reading letters in the marketplace instead of her dad.
200
What is a kebab?
Meat on a skewer, usually cooked over an open flame.
200
How is Parvana made to look like a boy?
She cut her hair, and she is given her brother Houssain's clothes to wear
200
What are two specific examples of why Parvana should be compared to Malali.
She hasn't been outside in a year and a half/her feet aren't used to walking and going up and down stairs/her shoes no longer fit/she has to build up her endurance (her muscles weren't used to even basic exercise).
200
How was Nooria treating Paravana before dad went to jail?
She was talking to her in a bad way and always being bossy.
200
What is the stuff that Paravana always buy for her family
Nan, Tea,and rice.
300
What is her good shalwar kameez?
It is bittersweet when Parvana sells this in the marketplace. She is sad to see it go, but pleased with the price she got for it.
300
What does Parvana dress in to look like a boy?
Parvana dressi is shalwar kameez.
300
Why did Nooria agree to get married ?
Nooria agreed to get married because she hate living under the Taliban ,she is tiered looking after Maryam and Ali ,my school classes happen so seldom ,they are almost no value and also she need to have a job .
300
Show how was Parvana luckier than all her sibilings?
She get out at least for a few hours each day to help her father walk to the marketplace.
300
Why did Nooria start to treat Parvana better than before?
Because she has become the breadwinner of the family after her father's arrest
400
What is a pakul?
The soft, round-topped mens' hat that Parvana when she becomes a boy.
400
Why does she plant flowers under the window at the end of the book ?
Parvana hears a man yelling at a woman and the sound of a person being beaten, and she knows that she must keep the Window Woman a secret for the woman’s own safety. She plants flowers so the woman can understand that she is not coming back soon.
400
How was there lifestyle before there house was bombed by the Taliban?
They had a beautiful house,car,servants,T.V,beautiful Afghan carpets, and a garden.
400
What is the cheapest stuff that they get?
Rice,and tea
500
What is a chador?
A scarf-like covering girls must wear in public over their head and shoulders.
500
how did Parvana and Nooria differ on how they should handle their mother ?
Parvana take care of her mother by that she get for them money to have food and help her to be her escort . Nooria looked after Ali and prepared for them breakfast and lunch .she even cares about t how her mother feel.
500
What stuff that Parvana's dad had that taliban maybe not like?
Books about they are and how they treat people.
500
How was Paravana's health situation after he came from jail?
He had rips on his body and he was hardly sick.
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