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My Forbidden Face Chapter 2 Questions
1. What does the postcard tacked on Soraya’s wall show?
2. Where will Soraya and Latifa NOT be going this morning?
3. What is Fager?
4. What did Latifa pass with flying colors?
5. Who offered to fund the building of mosques?
6. What did Daoud do if he needed anything?
7. To what will Latifa no longer do?
8. What did Mama do on certain days for neighborhood women?
9. What are the only two offices still operating?
10. “All women who are obliged to leave their homes must be accompanied by whom?
11. “A girl is not allowed to do what?
12. How does Latifa feel the Taliban are “annihilating” women?
13. List three items Mama had begun to wrap.
14. What clothes does Latifa keep out of her suitcase?
15. “Opening this cage is a ___.” What does the canary carry with him?
16. What are Latifa’s father and brother “obliged” to do?
17. “It is forbidden to keep these…
18. Where does the family take Bingo?
19. When was Papa able to check on his warehouse?
20. From where do smuggled videos come?
21. Why does the Taliban want to keep the black market?
22. What does Latifa do all day?
23. What is Saber’s sister’s name?
24. What were two of the names Latifa and her friends called women who wore the chadri?
25. How did you look behind you in the chadri?
26. What are the Taliban trying to steal?
27. To what does Latifa compare her home?
28. When does Latifa finally leave her home?
29. What happens to the women they pass on the street?
30. What did Farida and Latifa have to do?
31. Why were the women beaten?
32. How does Latifa know that the Taliban does not have respect for the Koran?
33. Forbidding a woman to see a male doctor and forbidding a woman to work is an attempt to do what to
women?
34. What was the declaration of President Daoud in 1975?
35. What happened to Mama professionally during the Soviet rule?
36. What does mama tell the soviet minister in Kabul?
37. What does Latifa see as she looked out her window in the winter of 1997?
a.
What was the boy’s name?
b.
What had the boy done to deserve this?
c.
Why did the Taliban beat the boy even harder?
d.
For what did the boy’s mother beg a pardon?
38. Where do Daoud, Soraya and Latifa go in February of 1996?
39. What does Narguesse do because she is mad? What happens to her?
40. What does Mama do every night and why?