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WorksheetsCh 16 - 18 A Thousand Splendid Suns
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
How would you say Laila's father, Babi, is described? How would spend his time if he could do whatever he liked?
Patient, keeping bees in the backyard
Intelligent, with his nose in a book about history
Manly, fixing things around the house
(pg 108) From this onomatopoetic passage about Laila's mother: "Finally a door slammed. Pounding footsteps. Mammy's bed creaked loudly. Babi, it seemed, would survive to see another day."
What do we learn from this passage?
Laila's mother is prone to fits of bad temper.
Laila's parents' furniture is very old and in need of replacement.
Laila's father is not at home very much.
p. 110. On the way to school, Laila notices a man in the backseat of an unusual blue and white Mercedes Benz parked outside of Rasheed and Mariam's house. The man in the backseat is "thin, white-haired, dressed in a dark brown suit, with a white handkerchief triangle in the breast pocket." The car had Herat license plates.
We don't learn anything else about the significance of this man until much later in the book. Who do you think Hosseini might be foreshadowing is going to make a return to the story, based on this description?
Mullah Fazullah, Mariam's old tutor
Tariq, Laila's childhood crush
Babi, Laila's father
Jalil, Mariam's father
(p. 111) Laila's classmate call their teacher "Auntie Painter," referring to the motion she favored when she slapped students--palm, then back of the hand, back and forth, like a painter working a brush.
What is the figurative language being used here?
a metaphor, the teacher is being compared to a paintbrush
a simile, the teacher is being compared to a painter
alliteration, because "Painter" and "palm" both start with a "p"
(p. 114) Describe Babi's view of women and education.
He thinks it is useless to educate women under the Soviet regime.
He believes a country will fail if its women remain undeducated.
He hopes that Laila will get married and be educated in Europe or America.
A neighborhood bully confronts Laila, greeting her "with the barrel of a gun." What happens to Laila in this moment?
Laila is threatened with the gun, but the bully, Khadim, decides not to kill her---at least NOT YET.
Laila is threatened with a squirt gun, and the bully, Khadim, squirts Laila and her girlfriends as they walk home with water.
Laila is threatened with a squirt gun, and the bully, Khadim, squirts urine into her hair while taunting her about her one-legged boyfriend.
Although Mariam and Laila have never met, Hosseini has painted portraits of two girls with one thing in common. What is it?
Both are going to be well educated because their father's insist.
Both have mothers who do not nurture them in a way that young girls require to feel good to grow into confident young women in the world.
Both girls are uncommonly pretty, and both are often complimented about this by others.
Both have crushes on neighborhood boys.
Laila and Tariq have a way of communicating from their separate houses. This is how Laila knows that Tariq is back from his trip. What is this ingenious communication method?
They use small flashlights to communicate.
They use tin cans with a string to connect them so they can hear each other.
They use their iphones to text and send coded messages through instagram that their parents will NEVER understand.
They send notes to each other through a friend.
Tarik's family are ethnic Pashtuns. Laila and her family are Tajiks. They speak Farsi for Laila's benefit. What has Babi told Laila about Pashtuns and Tajiks and how they should interact?
Pashtuns and Tajiks should not mix. They speak different languages for a reason.
When one group rules over another for a long time, there's contempt. But basically they're all Afghans and that's all that should matter.
Tajiks and Pashtuns need to mix, but Tajiks, who speak Farsi, are the superior race and always will be. But Laila should not talk about that.
Babi tells Laila that women actually have more freedom under the Soviets than they had before the Soviet invasion under Afghan rule (but he doesn't want his wife to hear because she knows they are the ones who killed her beloved sons.)
True
False
