TSS 16-18

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Across
  1. 3. Tariq shows up with a ________ head
  2. 4. Though Tariq and his parents were ethnic Pashtuns, they spoke ______ when Laila was around for her benefit, even though Laila more or less understood their native Pashto, having learned it in school.
  3. 5. Laila’s classmate
  4. 6. Mammy and Babi are ________
  5. 9. Both Mammy and Babi, who were first cousins, had been born and raised in Panjshir; they had moved to Kabul back in 1960 as hopeful, bright-eyed newlyweds when Babi had been admitted to ________ University.
  6. 10. Laila’s hair color
  7. 13. a small man, with narrow shoulders and slim, delicate hands, almost like a woman's.
  8. 14. Outside, as she was climbing on the carrier pack of Babi's bicycle, Laila spotted a car parked up the street, across from the house where the shoemaker, Rasheed, lived with his ________ wife.
  9. 15. Laila’s classmate
  10. 19. Laila’s best friend
Down
  1. 1. Laila and Tariq use ______ to communicate
  2. 2. Laila is also known as the __________ girl.
  3. 3. By "out there," he didn't mean Kabul, which had always been relatively liberal and progressive. Here in Kabul, women taught at the university, ran schools, held office in the government- No, Babi meant the tribal areas, especially the Pashtun regions in the south or in the east near the Pakistani border, where women were rarely seen on the streets and only then in burqa and accompanied by men. He meant those regions where men who lived by ancient tribal laws had rebelled against the communists and their decrees to liberate women, to abolish forced marriage, to raise the minimum marriage age to sixteen for girls.
  4. 7. Tajiks have always felt slighted, Babi had said. ____________ kings ruled this country for almost two hundred and 'fifty years, Laila, and Tajiks for all of nine months, back in 1929.
  5. 8. And, just five days in, Laila had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which Tariq's father sometimes played old Pashto songs, time stretched and ________ depending on Tariq's absence or presence
  6. 11. Main character of Chapter 16
  7. 12. She said that the Soviet Union was the best nation in the world, along with Afghanistan. It was kind to its workers, and its people were all equal. Everyone in the Soviet Union was happy and friendly, unlike America, where _______ made people afraid to leave their homes.
  8. 16. imposing
  9. 17. a revolution, an uprising of the working people against inequality.
  10. 18. Kabul’s gigantic bread factory