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Chapter 1: In The Hills Above Kabul Chapter Vocabulary: Councilors, recommend, trousers Chapter questions: 1. What is the setting in this chapter? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Who is Sadeed? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What was Sadeed chosen to do? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Who is Amira? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5. What was the headman’s decision and why? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Chapter 2: In the Hills above Linsdale Chapter Vocabulary: Concrete, plunged, ascent Chapter questions: 1. What is the setting of this chapter? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Who is Abby and what did she like to do? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What is Abby’s favorite part of school? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. What is your favorite part of school and why? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Chapter 3: Worst Case Chapter Vocabulary: Decent, interruption, rappelling Chapter questions: 1. Do you have anything in common with Abby? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What does Mrs. Carmody tell Abby? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. How does Abby feel about this? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. What does Abby plan to do? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5. At the end of this chapter how does Abby feel about herself? Explain. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Chapter 4: Steep Climb Chapter Vocabulary: Murmur, promoted, blurted Chapter questions: 1. Who is Mrs. Cooper? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What 3 things does Abby have to do to get promoted to 7th grade? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Does Abby feel confident that she can complete the task given to her? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Chapter 5: The Project Chapter Vocabulary: Bailouts, exceptional, raised-relief Chapter questions: 1. How many assignments were in Mrs. Beckland’s box? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What project did Abby get? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What were the 3 places Mrs. Beckland had connections with? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Why did Abby pick Afghanistan? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Chapter 6: Stuck Between Chapter Vocabulary: Charpoy, bazaar, droppings Chapter questions: 1. What was Amira having trouble with? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. How many students did Mahmood? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. How does the letter get sent back to Abby? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Was it going to be easy for Sadeed to help his sister write this letter? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Do you remember a time when you had trouble learning something or teaching somebody something? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Chapter 7 Word for Word Chapter Vocabulary: Patiently, dictates, kebab, poultry Chapter questions: 1. What is Dari? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. How were they going to get this letter written? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What is one question that Amira asks Abby in her letter? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. What was Sadeed’s job? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ 5. Why did Sadeed write 2 letters? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Chapter 8: House, Barn, Fields, Woods Chapter Vocabulary: Hibernated, vanished, tangled Chapter questions: 1. Where did Abby go after she got home from school? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What is Abby’s brother’s name and what was his territory? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Who called Abby and Why? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. What was waiting for Abby at the house? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Chapter 9: Abby in America Chapter Vocabulary: Determination, brimless, avalanches Chapter questions: 1. Which letter did Abby get? How do you know? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What did Abby think of Amira’s letter? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What were the 3 pictures of? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Select 1 of the pictures that Amira sent Abby and try to draw it from her description?

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Chapter 10: Celebrity Chapter Vocabulary: Celebrity Chapter questions: 1. Who is the celebrity in this chapter and why? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Why do you think Sadeed stopped listening? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Did Amira like all of the attention? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Do you remember a time when you got a lot of attention (describe when and what happened to you)? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Chapter 11: A Real Person Chapter Vocabulary: Silhouette, romantic Chapter questions: 1. What 2 words did Abby learn to write in this letter? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What was different about Abby’s 2nd letter? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Why did Sadeed offer to take the letter to the bazaar? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. What did you like/dislike about Abby’s letter? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Chapter 12: Postings Chapter Vocabulary: Postings, dismal, privacy Chapter questions: 1. What is the title of Abby’s bulletin board? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What did Abby put on her bulletin board? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What got the boys interested in the board? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Why didn’t Abby want to put up a copy of her letter? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Chapter 13: Small Mountain Chapter Vocabulary: Lifeless, shriveled, Hindu Kush Chapter questions: 1. What fell on the floor when Abby opened the letter? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Why is it wrong for Sadeed to write to Abby? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What does Sadeed ask Abby to do in his letter? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Why is Abby going to write two letters? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Chapter 14: Connected Chapter Vocabulary: Vanity, pride, forbidden Chapter questions: 1. What was one of the English books that Sadeed has read? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Why did Sadeed volunteer to read the letter to the class? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What did Abby send Amira in her letter? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Why was Sadeed as red as a pomegranate? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Chapter 15: Flag Chapter Vocabulary: Turban, rucksack, pollute Chapter questions: 1. What is Pashto? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Why was the man upset to see the envelope that Sadeed was carrying? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What did the man do to Amira’s letter? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Who was Sadeed going to tell about the man and why? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Chapter 16: Decisions Chapter Vocabulary: Discreetly, request Chapter questions: 1. How can you tell if someone belongs to the Taliban? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What was the decision and why was it made? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. One more letter is to be written to do what? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________

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Chapter 17: Not Stupid Chapter Vocabulary: Kerosene, wilderness Chapter questions: 1. What did Sadeed’s father tell him on their way home? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What did Sadeed see when he was looking at the soil? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What did Amira see when she was looking at the soil? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. What does Abby have to get ready for? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Chapter 18: Flag Chapter Vocabulary: Mosque Chapter questions: 1. What was wrong with Abby’s display? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Who was responsible for altering Abby’s and Why? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Do you agree with what happened in this chapter or not? Ex-plain. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Chapter 19: Mostly Sadeed Chapter questions: 1. What does Amira tell Abby in her letter? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What did Abby replace the Afghan flag with? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What does Mrs. Beckland mean by anti-American feelings? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. What kept Abby so busy the last few months of school? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Chapter 20: Presentation Chapter Vocabulary: Oral report, bargain, bandits Chapter questions: 1. What did Abby have left to do to complete her extra credit

project? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What is Buzkashi? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What did Abby learn by doing this project? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. What did Abby do with her bulletin board when she was fin-ished? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Chapter 21: Field Day Chapter Vocabulary: Absolute, participate, Chapter questions: 1. What does Abby’s school have on the last day of school? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What did Sadeed experience that he shared in his letter to Abby? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What did Abby want to do after reading Sadeed’s letter? Why didn’t she do it? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Do you like this book? Rate it on a scale of 1 - 10. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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