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- 4. If you steal, your hand will be cut off at the wrist. If you steal again, your ______ will be cut off.
- 5. Mariam had heard the announcement, in January of that year, that men and women would be seen in different hospitals, that all ______ staff would be discharged from Kabul's
- 6. He was a communist and a _______.This is what we do with infidels who commit crimes against Islam!"
- 11. Women will not paint your______. If you do, you will lose a finger.
- 13. "Your daughter needs a _______. Do you know what that is? We have to open her womb and take the baby out, because it is in the breech position."
- 14. All men will grow their beards. The correct length is at least one ______ fist beneath the chin. If you do not abide by this, you will be beaten.
- 16. The Taliban had one thing the Mujahideen did not, Rasheed said. They were______ .
- 17. and sent to work in one central facility.
- 19. "It's an interesting _____ color she has, Aziza. Don't you think? It's neither yours nor mine."
- 20. Instead, Nana had endured the shame of bearing a harami, had shaped her life around the thankless task of raising Mariam and, in her own way, of loving her. And, in the end, Mariam had chosen ______ over her.
- 21. Women will not _______in public. If you do, you will be beaten.
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- 1. If you are found guilty of adultery, you will be ______ to death
- 2. Attention women:______ are forbidden.
- 3. "You like big words? I'll give you one:______. That's what I'm doing here, Laila. Making sure you don't lose perspective."
- 7. Mullah Omar. Leader of the______ .
- 8. "They want us to operate in ______," the doctor explained, motioning with her head to the nurse at the door. "She keeps watch. She sees them coming; I cover."
- 9. If you keep _____, you will be beaten. Your birds will be killed.
- 10. They shut down the cinemas too. Cinema Park. Ariana. Aryub. Projection rooms were ransacked and reels of films set to___.
- 12. Laila remembered all the times she and Tariq had sat in those theaters and watched ____ films, all those melodramatic tales of lovers separated by some tragic turn of fate, one adrift in some faraway land, the other forced into marriage, the weeping, the singing in fields of marigolds, the longing for reunions.
- 14. Women will not wear _______ clothes.
- 15. roots
- 18. Laila heard of men being dragged from the streets, accused of skipping______ , and shoved into mosques.
