Suffering from the Taliban
Family Issues
Life in the Marketplace
Quotes from Characters
Vocabulary
100
List 3 rules that the Taliban put.
-Answers may vary ex. Forbade girls to go to school. ex. Women were forced to wear burqas. ex. Women need escorts (a man) to go out.
100
Who from their family got arrested and why?
Their father because the Taliban don't want educated people in Afghanistan and don't want him to spread education between people because he studied in England.
100
What did Parvana and her father used to do in the marketplace before father was arrested?
Parvana and her father used to sit in a place in the marketplace and read or write letters in Dari or Pashtu for illiterate people in Kabul.
100
Who said ''As soon as I get out of the Taliban territory, I'm going to throw off my burqa and tear it into a million pieces''?
Nooria.
100
Who are the 'Members of the illegal ruling party in Afghanistan'
The Taliban.
200
What happens every Friday in the soccer stadium?
The Taliban cut off prisoners' hands off in the stadium and them show off the hands!
200
What do women in their family do when they get mad and desperate?
They go to sleep in the corner of the house on the toshak.
200
What was their plan to earn after Father got arrested?
They would dress up Parvana into a boy and make her work in the marketplace. So, she would also read or write letters in Pashtu and Dari.
200
Who said ''Go to sleep Hossain''?
Fatana (Mother)
200
The word form for 'Afghan bread-flat, sometimes long and sometimes round'
Nan
300
List 3 horrible things that the Taliban did to people?
Answers may vary. ex. They killed them in Mazar. They beat up them for silly reasons like walking in the streets when your legs makes noise. They arrest people for silly reasons like being educated. Forbid having books or pictures. etc.
300
Who died from their family and how? How old was he?
Hossain, their older brother, he died from a landmine that blew up. He was 14 years old.
300
What was Parvana and Shauzia's plan to earn more money and what did they want the money for?
Their plan was bone digging. They had to dig up bones from cemeteries. They wanted to dig up these bones to earn enough money to buy trays with straps to go around their neck . They also needed to buy cigarettes, gum, and boxes of matches to put on the tray to sell in the marketplace.
300
Who said ''The Taliban is in Mazar''?
Homa; the girl Parvana found crying next to a house.
300
The two main languages spoken in Afghanistan are..
Pashtu and Dari
400
What did the Taliban do to Parvana and her mother when they went to get father out of jail?
They cut the picture of him, that they got with them, into many pieces and they kept beating them up until they left.
400
What did Parvana find out about Mazar-e-Sharif when her family members were there and what did she do?
She found out that the Taliban had captured Mazar and they are going to every house killing everyone and throwing their bodies in the streets. So Parvana slept on the toshak for a few days then she went up and went to work. When she came back from work on one day she found her father and told him everything and went with him with a truck to Mazar.
400
State a moment when a Taliban Soldier acted unexpectedly, why did this happen and what does that prove?
A Taliban soldier shed tears from his eyes when he got Parvana to read for him a letter that was among his wife's belongings; she died. That proves that the Taliban also have feeling like us; they do have feelings.
400
Who said ''Most of the Taliban don't know how to read''?
Nooria
400
The word form for 'A narrow mattress used in many Afghan homes instead of chairs or beds'
A toshak
500
What do you think will Happen in the next 20 years in Afghanistan' will the Taliban leave, will it come to peace, will the Taliban destroy Afghanistan and why? *Use inference* *Need to have a reasonable explanation for why* DAILY DEAL: If you answer this question correct you get an extra question worth 500 Points! Question: What was the name of the prison in the book?
*Answers may vary* For instance, I think that the Taliban will still be in Afghanistan because the Taliban are in Afghanistan from almost 20 years and none of the Afghan people started protests or anything! They are just staying around asking themselves is this going to end! Another answer may be, Yes I think The Taliban will leave Afghanistan and it will come to peace because the Arab countries are going to help Afghanistan and attack the Taliban! DAILY DEAL: Pul-i-Charkhi.
500
Why did the family go to Mazar? Why didn't Parvana want to go with them and they didn't agree to leave her, then why did they agreed to leave her and then how did she feel when they agreed to leave her?
They went to Mazar because Nooria was getting married to one of her relatives that lives there, but Parvana didn't want to go because she said that Father might come back when they're gone. Then they agreed to leave Parvana with Mrs.Weera because it will be difficult to explain her appearance. Then she found herself sulking that they were not taking her with them; she sais she is not satisfied with anything anymore.
500
Who did Parvana meet in the marketplace and how was her life going; like what struggles did she have; what happened to her family members, were and with who did she live,etc.?
Parvana met Shauzia, one of her friends from school, in the marketplace. Her brother went to Iran to find work almost a year ago and they haven't heard anything from him since. Her father died of a bad heart. So she went to work as a tea boy dressed as a boy. She lives with her mother and grandparents, from her dad's side, at their house, but they always had fights with her mother.
500
Who said ''I'll be here''?
Mrs.Weera
500
The word form for 'A gray or brown woolen blanket shawl worn by Afghan men and boys'
Pakul
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