Question 1

To what did Parvana have to agree to be changed into a boy?

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Answer

To have her hair cut

Answer

To change her name when outside the home

Answer

To wear Hossein’s clothes

Question 2

What was Parvana to tell those who asked questions about who she was?

Accepted Answer

She was to say she was Father's nephew

Answer

She was to say she was Father’s younger brother

Answer

She was to say she was Nooria’s son.

Answer

She was to say she was a friend of the family

Question 3

Parvana’s first customer as a letter reader is a Taliban soldier. How does he react to the letter that she reads for him?

Accepted Answer

He cries

Answer

He is angry and refuses to pay

Answer

He asks for it to be read three times

Answer

He doesn't believe what is written

Question 4

Who moves in with Parvana and her family at the beginning of Chapter 8?

Accepted Answer

Mrs. Weera

Answer

Shauzia

Answer

Parvana's grandmother

Answer

Marza

Question 5

What is the family able to do now that Parvana is “a boy”?

Accepted Answer

Go outside

Answer

Listen to music

Answer

Travel outside of the country

Answer

Go to school

Question 6

Who did Parvana see at the end of Chapter 8?

Accepted Answer

A girl from her class

Answer

Her Father

Answer

Her uncle from Kabul

Answer

Osama Bin Laden

Question 7

What was the relationship like between Parvana and Shauzia?

Accepted Answer

They were acquaintances in school but are good friends now.

Answer

They were enemies in school and they are enemies now.

Answer

They were best friends in school and even better friends’ now

Answer

There is no relationship between the two girls

Question 8

Why was Shauzia not able to sell items from a tray at the market?

Accepted Answer

Because she is a girl

Answer

Because she didn't have the money to buy a tray and supplies

Answer

Because she can't physically carry the trays

Answer

Because she was missing a leg

Question 9

Parvana read a letter for a Talib soldier. How did this experience change her view of the Talibs?

Accepted Answer

She realized that Talibs had feelings and emotions.

Answer

She hated the Taliban even more.

Answer

She began to view them as a major threat to the world

Answer

Her view of the Talib did not change.

Question 10

What does Parvana discover about the blacked-out window near the market?

Accepted Answer

A mystery lady is leaving her gifts

Question 11

A person that earns money to support a family

Accepted Answer

Breadwinner

Question 12

What did Parvana want done with her hair when it was cut off?

Accepted Answer

She wanted to throw it away

Answer

She wanted to mail it to father in prison

Answer

She wanted to try and sell it

Answer

She wanted to keep it

Question 13

Why did Shauzia tell mother that she was lucky that she got to go to work?

Accepted Answer

Her family fought all the time

Answer

Her apartment was smaller than Parvana's

Answer

She hated her sister

Answer

She liked to be with people

Question 14

A long tent-like garment which covers the entire body of a woman

Accepted Answer

burqa

Question 15

A narrow mattress used as a bed or couch.

Accepted Answer

Toshak

Related quizzes

Related quizzes