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My Forbidden Face
Chapter 1 Reading Guide
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1. On what date did someone knock violently on 40. What does an “economy of emotions” help them do?
Latifa’s door? Page 20
2. How old was Latifa? 41. What kinds of posters does Latifa have on her wall? (2)
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3. What is Latifa’s young cousin’s name? 42. What is hanging in Soraya’s closet?
4. What is Latifa’s young brother’s name? 43. “Yesterday afternoon was perhaps my last ____ in ____, my
5. What did Daoud see over the mosque? last ____ as a ____.”
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6. Who did the Taliban Hang? 44. Who always tries to give them hope?
7. With what did the Taliban hang him? Page 23
Page 4 45. What did Wida do when Shapour would not marry her?
8. How was life in Kabul on September 26th? 46. Why did Wida’s parents go into exile?
9. What did Latifa do on September 26th? Page 24
Page 5 47. When id the only time you can say what you really think?
10. “Najibullah is a ______, like they are…” 48. Who is the former resistance fighter who set himself up in
11. A pashtun is the _____ ____ _____ in the country. Kabul in 1992?
12 What is the name of the Afghan Communist secret 49. Who is General Massoud’s Pashtun’s enemy?
police directed by Najibullah? Page 27
Page 6 50. What does Daoud go out to buy?
13. “The Taliban are all ____________.” 51. What happened to Papa’s shop during the 1991 coup de'tat?
14. What is the name of the cap that man must never wear? Page 28
Page 7 52. To what does the family listen that evening?
15. What is the name of Latifa’s dog?
16. When was Latifa born?
17. Who is Wahid?
18. Where does Wahid live?
19. Who is Shakila?
20. Where does Shakila live?
21. On what is Shakila waiting?
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22. Where does Soraya, Latifa’s young sister, work?
23. What is Daoud studying?
24. What does Latifa want to study?
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25. What do Soraya, her sister and her father decide to do?
26. How do the girls dress?
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27. What does the neighbor ask them to do?
28. They see man ___ but not many ____.
29. Of what does Latifa’s father want to make sure?
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30. What are the Taliban brandishing?
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31. What is Latifa’s mother’s job?
32. Where had women had jobs before the Taliban? (3)
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33. Najibullah “… didn’t ____ the Taliban would dare
invade a building belonging to the United Nations.”
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34. Why did Latifa rush up the stairs?
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35. There is no _____.
36. What is the name of the radio station?
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37. What does the Taliban ask the men to do?
38. What does the Taliban ask the women to do?
39. What does the landlord’s agent tell Latifa’s father?