At the very first meeting, what does the Cabuliwallah give to Mini? (two things)
Nuts and raisins
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What do the nuts and fruits symbolize?
Friendship, compassion, acceptance
100
How many siblings did he have?
14
100
Where is the Cabuliwallah from? Spell it
Kabul
200
What does the Cubuliwallah do? (for a living)
He walks the streets of India selling varying things, a peddler
200
The Cabuliwallah said he would thrash whose house?
The Father-in-law's house
200
What does the "Father-in-law's house" symbolize?
Prison, sadness, failure, forgetting
200
The author writes mainly for the Indian, Bengali, or Afghan people?
Bengali
200
Where does the story take place?
India
300
Who/What is the antagonist?
Society
300
The Cabuliwallah was sentenced to many years of imprisonment for what charge?
Murderous assault
300
What does the mother symbolize?
Society, prejudice, judgement
300
The author is from what country, India, Pakistan, or Afghanistan?
India
300
What is the color of the custom wedding gown of India?
Red
400
Mini's father is an...
Author
400
When the Cabuliwallah tries to come to Mini's wedding and the father first rejects him, he gives the father some nuts and raisins to give to Mini. What did the father try to do in return for the gift?
Pay the Cabuliwallah for the gift
400
What does the Cabuliwallah symbolize?
foreign thoughts and ideas, uniqueness, difference, unnatural, grandfather figure
400
Is the author the narrator in the story? Yes or no
No, it is the father
400
What chapter of his latest book is the father finishing at the beginning of the story?
The seventeenth
500
How old is Mini?
Five years old
500
How does Mini react to the Cabuliwallah at the end of the story?
She is embarrassed and flustered
500
What does Mini symbolize?
Naive, obliviousness, childhood, life, time, growth, change