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My Forbidden Face
Chapter 3 Reading Guide
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1. What are Latifa’s only contacts with the outside world?
2. What does Mama sometimes do during the day?
Page 64
3. Latifa says she won’t marry anyone until what?
Page 65
4. Why is Latifa’s family fortunate?
Page 66
5. What has become second nature to women?
6. What is the appearance of the woman who comes to the door?
7. Why was the woman flogged?
8. How did the woman’s father die?
Page 67
9. Who is Nafissa?
10. Who are the three young girls with Narfissa?
Page 68
11. From where are the girls?
12. To whom is Daoud told to take a note?
Page 69
13. What happened to the young girls on the Shamali Plain?
Page 70
14. How long do they work on the girls?
15. What kind of future did these young girls have?
Page 71
16. What happens to an Afghan woman after she is raped? (3 options)
17. What does Mama propose?
18. Through where does all mail pass?
Page 72
19. What does Anita’s mother do to earn money?
Page 73
20. What is the most lucrative business in Afghanistan?
21. What must be smaller?
Page 74
22. When is the only time Mama acts like her old self?
23. What torments Mama constantly?
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24. What is the one condition Papa’s friend gives Papa to come see Latifa?
25. What does Latifa have?
Page 76
26. Where will Latifa’s family be staying while in Peshawar?
Page 77
27. What advice does the driver give the family?
28. With what is the road through the outlying district of Kabul strewn?
29. At the checkpoint, who do the Taliban use to search the women?
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30. “They can ___ our way or send us to prison without a word of explanation.”
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31. Why must the family hurry?
Page 80
32. What is the only document that attests “…to the existence of his wife and daughters.”?
Page 81
33. What does the Pakistani policeman want?
Page 82
34. What were 50 Pakistani rupees worth?
Page 83
35. What is the “real delight”?
Page 84
36. At what time does Latifa’s family reach the neighborhood of Karkhana?
37. Who imports good into Afghanistan?
38. Why did Pakistan speedily recognize the Taliban regime?
Page 85
39. What luxury is no longer available in Kabul?
Page 86
40. What has Shakila’s husband acquired in Virginia?
Page 87
41. How long is Latifa hospitalized?
42. What has never wavered between Latifa’s parents?
Page 88
43. What happened to Wahid?
Page 89
44. What did Daoud see that was so disturbing to him?
Page 90
45. What does the specialist advise Papa?
46. What is a huge temptation?
Page 91
47. When is it time to go home?
Page 92
48. How does Latifa’s family make the trip home?
49. What is the “new sport” in Kabul?
Page 93
50. What has Kabul become?