Show:
Characters
Afghan Culture
Literary Terms
Vocabulary
Odds & Ends
100
Mariam
Who is the main character's sister, who was left behind in Afghanistan.
100
Burka
What is the head-to-foot covering worn in public by Muslim women?
100
Simile
What is a comparison of two unlike things using the words 'like' or 'as'?
100
Turban
What is a head covering for Muslim men?
100
Barbie
What is the type of doll Mariam carried?
200
Noor, Zafoona, Habib
Who are Fadi's sister, mother, and father, who left with Fadi for the United States
200
Peshawar, Pakistan
Where did Afghan refugees go for asylum?
200
Setting
What is the time and place of a story?
200
Asylum
What is shelter and protection from danger?
200
Taxi Driver
What is Fadi's father's job in the United States?
300
Ike and Felix
Who are the boys who bullied Fadi?
300
Pukhtuns
What is the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan?
300
Flashback
What is when the story changes to tell something that happened in the past?
300
Abuse
What is the misuse of power in a harmful way?
300
Little Kabul
What is Fremont, California called because of the concentration of Afghan people who live there?
400
Nilufer, Amin, and Zalmay
Who is Zafoona's sister's family, who Fadi's family moved in with upon arriving in the United States?
400
On the floor, with a table cloth.
Where do Afghan families eat dinner?
400
Protagonist (or main character).
Who is the story centered on?
400
Traffickers
Who are people who transport items or people illegally?
400
September 11, 2001
When did the Taliban attack the United States by crashing planes into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon?
500
Abay and Dada
Who are Uncle Amin's parents, who act as grandparents to Fadi.
500
Books, movies, music, photographs, girls going to school, men shaving their faces.
What are the things the Taliban ban in Afghanistan?
500
Inference
What is an educated guess using evidence from the text?
500
Visa
What is a document granting official permission to enter or leave a country?
500
A trip to India.
What was the prize for winning the photo contest?