“Afghan Kids” Questions
1. Why are some children happy to work?
a. they are able to support their family
b. they get to learn new things while working
c. they are able to go to school during lunch hours
d. they get to earn more than adults for the same work
2. Select the sentence that BEST shows that laws against child labor are widely ignored.
a. Also families need the money the children make, said Sami Hashemi.
b. Sami has been working at the bakery since he was 10.
c. He is frustrated that so many children don’t go to school.
d. They bother drivers to buy gum, candy, maps and toilet paper.
3. Select the sentence that helps to highlight the wish of children who work to be respectable members of society.
a. Sami has been at the bakery since he was 10. His uncle, who owns the bakery, himself began working at age 8.
b. Mohammed has promised Sami’s father that the boy will be educated. “I don’t want this boy to have my life stuck inside this
bakery,” he says.
c. He daydreams of graduating from a university and becoming a teacher or engineer, a learned man, not a little boy who can
barely read and sells bread.
d. He hasn’t been home in 45 days and misses his family, but the men in the bakery serve as his family for now.
4. Select the sentence that shows that child labor has been a common practice in Kabul.
a. They also carry heavy loads and serve as soldiers.
b. Children under 18 cannot do dangerous jobs.
c. “Young boys have always worked in bakeries. That’s our tradition,” Mohammed says.
d. Sami feels lucky he has a job. But his mind is focused on the future.
5. On the back of the page write a response that is a minimum of one full paragraph.
1. Why are some children happy to work?
a. they are able to support their family
b. they get to learn new things while working
c. they are able to go to school during lunch hours
d. they get to earn more than adults for the same work
2. Select the sentence that BEST shows that laws against child labor are widely ignored.
a. Also families need the money the children make, said Sami Hashemi.
b. Sami has been working at the bakery since he was 10.
c. He is frustrated that so many children don’t go to school.
d. They bother drivers to buy gum, candy, maps and toilet paper.
3. Select the sentence that helps to highlight the wish of children who work to be respectable members of society.
a. Sami has been at the bakery since he was 10. His uncle, who owns the bakery, himself began working at age 8.
b. Mohammed has promised Sami’s father that the boy will be educated. “I don’t want this boy to have my life stuck inside this
bakery,” he says.
c. He daydreams of graduating from a university and becoming a teacher or engineer, a learned man, not a little boy who can
barely read and sells bread.
d. He hasn’t been home in 45 days and misses his family, but the men in the bakery serve as his family for now.
4. Select the sentence that shows that child labor has been a common practice in Kabul.
a. They also carry heavy loads and serve as soldiers.
b. Children under 18 cannot do dangerous jobs.
c. “Young boys have always worked in bakeries. That’s our tradition,” Mohammed says.
d. Sami feels lucky he has a job. But his mind is focused on the future.
5. On the back of the page write a response that is a minimum of one full paragraph.