These are often left behind by armies, and can kill civilians when they step on them.
What are landmines?
100
Parvana's father used to do this as a job.
What is high school teacher?
100
The name of Parvana's brother who was killed at age 14.
Who is Houssain?
100
Why does Parvana ask her mother to turn on the lamp the night Father is arrested?
What is so the light can guide him home if he is released?
100
When did Mother tell Father she would go back out into the city?
What is when the Afghan people kick the Taliban out and have a decent government again?
200
Who did not allow girls to attend school or women to work outside of the home?
What is the Taliban?
200
In order to make money now, Parvana's father does this for work.
What is read and write letters for illiterate Afghans, as well as sells household items the family can do without?
200
Parvana's father tells a story of a war between the British and the Afghans, and the role played by an Afghan girl named Malali. This was the lesson of his story.
What is that Afghanistan is home to the bravest women in the world?
200
Why did the Taliban order all windows painted black?
What is so no one could see the women inside?
200
What did Mother and Father often argue about?
What is whether or not they should have left Afghanistan when they had the chance?
300
These are the two main languages spoken in Afghanistan.
What are Pashtu and Dari?
300
Why must Parvana accompany her father to the marketplace?
What is he sold his prosthetic leg, and needs Parvana to help him walk?
300
Why does Father tell Parvana it is safer to keep to themselves, rather than socializing with their neighbors?
What is the Taliban encourages neighbors to spy on neighbors?
300
Why must Parvana and her mother walk to the jail to ask for Father's release?
What is women are not allowed to take a bus without a man with them?
300
Mother behaves this way after returning from the prison without Father.
What is depressed?
400
This covers the head and shoulders, and is worn by younger girls.
What is a chador?
400
What did Parvana's mother do for work before the Taliban?
What is she was a writer for a Kabul radio station?
400
Why isn't the family selling any of Nooria's good clothes?
What is she will need them when she gets married?
400
Why does Mother not want to take the note Nooria writes with them on the walk to the jail?
What is Mother refuses to walk around her own city with a note pinned to her as if she were a child. "I have a university degree!"
400
After Fahter has been gone 5 days, why does Parvana agree to leave the apartment?
What is they have run out of food?
500
A Muslim holiday celebrated at the end of Ramadan.
What is Eid?
500
Before the Taliban, what was another group of people who came to try to take over Afghanistan?
Who were the Soviets? or British? or Turks? or Arabs? or Greeks? or Persians?
500
Why do the Talib soldiers take away Parvana's father?
What is they don't like that he was educated in England/"Afghanistan doesn't need your foreign ideas!"
500
The guards do this to the photograph of Father.
What is rip it up?
500
Why can't any family member other than Parvana go to the market after Father's arrest?
What is Maryam and Ali are too small/young; Mother refuses to get up; Nooria is not allowed out without a burqa AND a male relative with her.