Chapter 14

1. Parvana is sitting in a dark building after curfew in the rain. She is waiting to go home when it is raining less. She hears a cry, and lights a match from her cigarette tray. She found the woman. She told her she was really a girl. Why didn’t the woman answer?

2. Parvana offered to go home and get Mrs. Weera’s burqa. The woman would not let go of Parvana. After giving the woman some food, what decision did Parvana have to make?

3. How long had Kabul been under curfew? What was it like before that time?

4. What did Parvana think to herself to feel brave and take the woman through the city streets to her home?

5. Mrs. Weera was relieved when they arrived home. She wondered why Parvana had brought the woman without a burqa. What did Mrs. Weera do for the woman?

6. How long did it take before the young woman, Homa, talked? What did they learn from the woman?

7. What did Parvana do after learning the Taliban had captured Mazar-e-Sharif?

8. Who was in Parvana’s apartment late one afternoon?