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The Taliban
100
Piece of cloth worn by women and girls that covers their hair and sholders
What is a chador
100
A history teacher at a high school.
What was father's job?
100
Goes to market dressed as a boy.
Who is Parvana?
100
A flat Afghan bread.
What is nan?
100
Members of the ruling party in Afghanistan.
What is the Taliban?
200
A cloak like object that women are required to wear.
What is burqa
200
Selling objects as well as reading and writing letters.
What is father's second job?
200
Who or what Parvana finds that escapes the Taliban's clutches.
Who is Homa?
200
A wheeled handcart, pushed in markets.
What is a karachi?
200
Twenty years of a brutal and bloody battle.
How long has the Taliban/Afghanistan war had been going on?
300
Long loose shirt and trousers.
What is shalwar kameez?
300
The physical education teacher who came to help mother.
Who is Miss Weera?
300
They stay behind during Nooria's wedding
What do Parvana & Miss Weera do?
300
Pashtu & Dari.
What are the two main Afghan languages?
300
Have their hands cut off.
What is the punishment of thieves?
400
A narrow mattress taking the place of beds and chairs.
What is a toshak?
400
A writer for Kabul radio station.
What was mother's job?
400
Nooria's wedding.
What causes the family to leave?
400
Digging up bones, selling things on a tray & reading and writing letters.
What are the ways Parvana makes money?
400
Crying in the market place after reading a letter.
What was a member of the Taliban doing?
500
A grey or a brown woolen blanket, worn by men and boys.
What is a pakul?
500
Mother is beaten after trying to find father.
Why does mother become depressed?
500
The Taliban storm Parvana's home.
How is father captured?
500
In Paris, twenty years from their last meeting.
What is the way Parvana and Shauzia will meet?
500
Shot and killed almost everyone in an entire town.
What happened to Homa's family and town?
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