ATTS Part 4

Tariq and Laila are finally married in Part 4.  What kind of wedding do they have and why?

• It’s a huge event that welcomes everyone they’ve ever met; they both have big families and, by custom, are expected to invite everyone

• It is a small, private affair with only a few guests; they are both private people and don’t like a lot of attention

• t was just the two of them; being married quickly was important for their living situation and also something they’d been longing for for a very long time.

•   It was a typical wedding; the couple had been in love for so long they wanted to celebrate in tradition

What is the big secret that Laila is keeping from Zalmai?

• Rasheed is dead and never coming back

• Rasheed is not his real father

• Rasheed left Zalmai a huge inheritance

• Both A and B

What is the most likely inference that we can make about Laila’s hesitation to tell Tariq she wants to return to Afghanistan?

• She knows that Tariq truly hates Afghanistan and swore he would never return

•  She has trouble trusting men and isn’t sure how Tariq will react

•  Life is safe, good and happy in Pakistan...why would he want to give that up?

• She’s afraid Tariq will find the answer to so many of the secrets she’s been keeping from him

When Laila goes to find Mariam’s kolba, she seeks out the help from an old acquaintance of Mariam’s.  Who does she find?

• Hamza; the son of Mullah Faizullah

•  Mullah Faizullah’s nephew

• Hamza; one of Jalil’s other secret children

• She must find the kolba herself without any help

While visiting the kolba, Laila has an out of body experience where she is transported to the past and can “see” Mariam living there as a girl.  What does this moment provide for both Laila and the reader?

• Fear & uneasiness; this creates a cliffhanger moment in the story

•  Foreshadowing; Mariam’s spirit is likely a ghost that will always haunt Laila

• Closure; it’s a suggestion that Mariam is at peace and will always be with Laila

• Joy; it makes Laila so happy to see Mariam again

What literary device is most clearly present in the line:  “In the middle of the night, when Laila woke up thirsty, she found their hands still clamped together, in the white-knuckle, anxious way of children clutching balloon strings.” (377)?

•  Imagery

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

What does Laila find in the box left for Mariam by Jalil?

•  An envelope (with a letter inside), a burlap sack (with money inside) and a videocassette (with Pinocchio recorded)

• A letter, a key, and two tickets to the cinema

• An envelope (with a deed to Jalil’s house inside), a burlap sack (with a keychain inside) and a videocassette (with Pinocchio recorded)

• An empty pill bottle, a handkerchief, and the deed to Jalil’s cinema

Which of the following plot events is an echo of an earlier time in the story?

•  Laila visiting Mariam’s kolba

• Laila becoming a teacher at the orphanage

• Laila becoming a teacher at the orphanage

•  All of the above

What are the geographic transitions Laila has experienced in Part 4?

•   Pakistan, Kabul

•  Kabul, Pakistan, Herat, Kabul

• Pakistan, Herat, Kabul, Pakistan

•  Pakistan, Iran, Herat, Kabul

We discover at the very end of the novel that Laila is pregnant. If she has a boy, her family has offered many ideas for names, but Laila reveals that if it’s a girl, she already has a name picked out.  What do you think that name will be?

•  Laila

• Kolba

• Giti

• Mariam