Q 01/05

In A Thousand Splendid Suns, what does Mariam use to kill Rasheed as he strangles Laila?

A) A kitchen knife

B) His own pistol

C) A shovel

D) A hammer

Answer · why

C) A shovel

A shovel ends Rasheed's life after decades of beatings. Mariam swings it twice, and sees the blow as the first real choice she has ever made for herse...

Q 02/05

Which Disney film does Mariam's father break his promise to show her in A Thousand Splendid Suns?

A) Pinocchio

B) Bambi

C) Dumbo

D) Cinderella

Answer · why

A) Pinocchio

Pinocchio is the cartoon he never takes her to; she walks to his house instead and sleeps outside his gate. Decades later a videotape of it turns up i...

Q 03/05

In A Thousand Splendid Suns, what is the trade of Rasheed, the Kabul widower Mariam is made to marry at fifteen?

A) A butcher

B) A shoemaker

C) A tailor

D) A carpet seller

Answer · why

B) A shoemaker

A shoemaker with his own shop, Rasheed is about thirty years older than his bride. He has already lost a first wife and a young son.

Q 04/05

Khaled Hosseini published A Thousand Splendid Suns as the follow-up to which bestselling debut novel?

A) The Namesake

B) The Lovely Bones

C) White Teeth

D) The Kite Runner

Answer · why

D) The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner came out in 2003 and spent more than 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Its main characters were almost all men, which p...

Q 05/05

In A Thousand Splendid Suns, which Hollywood film becomes a craze in Taliban-ruled Kabul through smuggled copies?

A) Jurassic Park

B) Titanic

C) The Lion King

D) Braveheart

Answer · why

B) Titanic

Titanic fever grips the drought-stricken city, and all kinds of goods on sale are soon named after the film. Laila thinks everyone simply wants to be ...