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My Forbidden Face
Chapter 2 Reading Guide
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1. What does the postcard tacked on Soraya’s wall show?
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2. Where will Soraya and Latifa NOT be going this morning?
3. What is Fager?
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4. What did Latifa pass with flying colors?
5. Who offered to fund the building of mosques?
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6. What did Daoud do if he needed anything?
7. To what did Latifa need to cling?
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8. To what will Latifa no longer go?
9. What did Mama do on certain days for neighborhood women?
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10. What are the only two offices still operating?
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11. “All women who are obliged to leave their homes must be accompanied by a ____.”
12. “Men must wear a _____ ____ or ____ on their heads.”
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13. “A girl is not allowed to ____ with a young ____.”
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14. How does Latifa feel the Taliban are “annihilating” women?
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15. List three items Mama had begun to wrap.
16. What clothes does Latifa keep out of her suitcase?
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17. The Taliban use the “…precepts of the _____, which they _____ as they please without any ____for the ____ book.”
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18. “Opening this cage is a ____ _____ _____.”
19. What does the canary carry with him?
20. What are Latifa’s father and brother “obliged” to do?
21. “It is forbidden to keep ____ or ____.”
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22. What kind of dog is Bingo?
23. Where does the family take Bingo?
24. When was Papa able to check on his warehouse?
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25. From where do smuggled videos come?
26. Why does the Taliban want to keep the black market?
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27. “Afghans are ____ by the way the Taliban ____ our religion with their ____.”
28. What does Latifa do all day?
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29. What is Saber’s sister’s name?
30. What were two of the names Latifa and her friends called women who wore chadri?
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31. How did you look behind you in a chadri?
32. “This isn’t ____, it’s a ____ ____.”
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33. What are the Taliban trying to steal?
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34. To what does Latifa compare her home?
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35. When does Latifa finally leave her home?
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36. What happens to the women they pass on the street?
37. What do Farida and Latifa have to do?
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38. Why were the women beaten?
39. Why is this so bad? (refer to 38)
40. How does Latifa know that the Taliban does not have respect for the Koran?
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41. Forbidding a woman to see a male doctor and forbidding a woman to work is an attempt to ____ women
42. What was the declaration of President Daoud in 1975?
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43. What happened to Mama professionally during the Soviet rule?
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44. What does Mama tell the soviet minister in Kabul?
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45. What does Latifa see as looked out her window in winter of 1997?
46. What was the boy’s name?
47. What had the boy done to deserve this?
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48. Why did the Taliban beat the boy even harder?
49. For what did the boy’s mother beg a pardon?
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50. Where do Daoud, Soraya and Latifa go in February of 1997?
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51. What does Narguesse do because she is mad?
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52. What happens to Narguesse?
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53. What does Mama do every night and why?
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