Chapter Six

My Forbidden Face Study guide

Chapter 6

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1. What is Papa worried about?

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2. What does Mama do to help the clandestine school?

3. Why did women stop coming to the apartment in Mikroryan?

4. What had disappeared and what is it being used for?

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5. What did Latifa and her friends publish? What did it look like?

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6. Where is the airline operating and who is it operating without?

7. How have Latifa and her family gotten new information? How many in how many years?

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8. How will Latifa and her friends get information for their review?

9. How old was Latifa when she went to work with Shakila? What was that time the beginning of?

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10. Who did Hekmatyar murder? What was his job?

11. Why was this man killed?

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12. What happened to Mrs. Zarmina? Tell about her ordeal.

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13. What finally happened to the people involved with Mrs. Zarmina’s ordeal?

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14. Who was Parwin? What happened to her?

15. What happened at Malalai Maternity Hospital? What was the cause?

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16. What is the new decree imposed by the Taliban?

17. Who got married and to whom?

18. When did Daoud get married? Where does his bride live?

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19. What comes from nikah?

20. What is the color of hope? What else is this the color of?

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21. What happens at the end of a wedding ceremony? What does it mean?

22. What was impossible to have at a restaurant? Why?

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23. Why was Daoud upset at his wedding?

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24. What happened when the Taliban showed up at Daoud’s wedding? Was anyone hurt?

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25. What no longer appears in the skies over Kabul?

26. What is a chelak? Describe it.

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27. What kind of boy was Doaud?

28. What kind of person was Wahid?

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29. What happened to Daoud when he went to check his exam scores?

30. Why wasn’t Doaud supposed to be drafted?

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31. Why did Wahid tell Daoud he was not to leave the apartment any more?

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32. What happened to the family from the Parwin neighborhood?

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33. Why were the boy’s exams scored harder than the girl’s?

34. What did Daoud choose to study in college?

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35. Daoud met a woman who worked where and for what?

36. How can you pay your student expenses in Dushanbe?

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37. Why was Daoud’s month of vacation difficult for him? Why was it not difficult for the rest of the family?

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38. Where did Latifa and her family go to hide? Why?

39. What had been “slashed into a dozen holes?”

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40. How long has Latifa been on “house arrest?”

41. What objective has the Taliban achieved?

42. What is an important source of revenue for the Taliban? Why?

43. What once looked lovely in the skies over Kabul?