(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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“Several men were trying to pull them apart. Babi wasn’t among them. He stood by the wall, at a safe distance from the fight, with Tariq’s father, who was crying.” (pg. 171)
‘I miss the boys too, you know…it broke me too, the boys dying...It’s very hard, Laila. So very hard.’ (pg. 150)
“Babi helped Laila with her homework and gave her some of his own. This was only to keep Laila a step or two ahead of her class…” (pg. 135)
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Internal Thoughts/Philosophical Outlook:
Interaction with his or her environment:
“All day, this poem about Kabul has been bouncing around in my head… ‘One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.’(pg. 192) (allusion to the title)
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Interaction With Other Characters:
Internal Thoughts/Philosophical Outlook:
‘…And the husband fancies himself some kind of advanced intellectual. But he’s a mouse. Look at him. Doesn’t he look like a mouse?’ (pg. 80)
Internal Thoughts/Philosophical Outlook:
“He was wearing a secondhand T-shirt with a picture of San Francisco’s red bridge on it…The last thing she was aware of was seeing something thud to the ground…On it, the tip of a red bridge poking through thick fog.” (pg. 194)
‘Women have always had it hard in this country…but they’re probably more free now…and have more rights than they’ve ever had before….” (pg. 135)
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Interaction with his or her environment:
“…and she was thinking of Babi…who made such a sad, pathetic opponent to Mammy. ‘Sometimes…I feel like you’re all I have, Laila.’ (pg. 184)
“…Babi would never leave without her…even though Mammy was no more a wife to him now than she was a mother to Laila.” (pg. 151)
‘…His students loved him…They respected him, you see, because he respected them…’ (pg. 120)
Internal Thoughts/Philosophical Outlook: ‘…There’s a teacher living down the street, Hakim is his name, and I see his wife…walking the streets alone with nothing on her head but a scarf. It embarrasses me…to see a man who’s lost control of his w
“Mammy, ferocious…pacing and ranting; Babi, sitting, looking sheepish and dazed, nodding obediently, waiting for the storm to pass.” (pg. 108)
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Interaction With Other Characters:
“The streets became so unsafe that Babi did an unthinkable thing: He had Laila drop out of school.” (pg. 177)
Internal Thoughts/Philosophical outlook:
‘That’s your business…To make nothing your business. Even your own son’s going to war.’ (pg. 110)
Physical Characteristics:
Interaction With Other Characters:
“Though he could hardly afford it…he’d hired a driver for the day. He wouldn’t disclose anything…about their destination except to say that…he was contributing to her education.” (pg. 146)
“Babi was a small man, with narrow shoulders and slim, delicate hands, almost like a woman’s” (pg. 109)
