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My Forbidden Face Ch 5 Study Guide
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119-120
1. What has become the domain of the Taliban and what do they teach there?
120
2. Why is the Mullah holding a stick?
3. What do students learn from the Mullah?
4. What do little boys wear in the first three years of their education?
5. At what age do little boys have to wear the turbin?
121
6. Who do widows count on for survival?
7. How old is Latifa? How long has she been shut up in her apartment?
122
8. Who was Mrs. Fawzia? What was she caught doing? What happened to her?
123
9. What does Farida suggest Latifa do?
10. Who do Farida and Latifa want to let into their clandestine school? Why?
124
11. What does Daoud say about involving Mrs. Fawzia in the plans for the school?
12. How many students will Farida, Maryam, and Latifa have each?
13. How old will the students be that attend the clandestine school?
125
14. What happened to the little girls in Taimani?
15. What has Soraya promised to do to help with the clandestine school?
16. What has Daoud promised to do to help the clandestine school?
126
17. What does each girl specialize in teaching?
18. When does Latifa begin and finish work?
19. What does Latifa specifically teach?
127
20. Who are Latifa’s students? How old are they?
21. Who was the head of Latifa’s class before she was? Where was she from?
128
22. What did students in Latifa’s high school wear?
23. What did the Soviets give the students to wear?
129
24. What happened to the children’s fathers?
25. Who was Anita? Why did she make Laitfa’s heart bleed?
26. What was Anita like? How did she live?
130
27. Why did Mama and Papa get married?
28. What was Papa’s grandmother afraid to bring into the family?
29. What was the proof Mama’s friend gave as the reasoning she believes mama picked “a real man”? Why?
131
30. Why is Latifa’s family a symbol of Afghanistan?
31. What happened when the British tried to invade Afghanistan?
131-132
32. What is talkhan? What is it used for?
133
33. Why did Latifa and her sister line up in two separate lines?
34. What was everyone using instead of gas?
134
35. How long did these hardships last? What happened to some people standing in line?
36. What did some families do with their daughters during the winter of 1988-1989? Why?
135
37. What was significant about the summer of 1991? How does it compare to the current situation for women in Kabul?
136
38. What happened at the wedding in April of 1992?
137
39. Why did Shakila call Papa at the store? What did she ask him to get?
40. How did Shakila find out about the potential for war in Kabul? What did the soldier tell her?
138
41. What did the soldier ask Shakila to do? What happened to the two women? Why?
138-139
42. Where did Saber’s mother work? What did she tell Shakila?
139
43. What will happen if the extremeists get into Kabul?
44. What did Radio Kabul announce on the third day of fighting?
140
45. Who was the “master of Kabul”?
46. What did the “master of Kabul” state everyone must do?
47. What politics did the girls who wanted to learn follow?
48. What happened to the people accused of being “anti-communist”?