Comprehension Questions:
a) Elif Shafak was born and lived in Turkey during her childhood. True or false?
b) In what ways did she feel her family was different from other families?
c) Which are the two models of women the writer grew up with?
d) The writer’s grandmother’s practices to heal patients’ warts included: an apple, words, rose thorns and ________________
e) As a witness to her grandmother’s healing practices, the writer …
1. believed what she saw
2. questioned the power of the healing
3. thought her grandmother was crazy
f) What was the lesson the writer learnt from her grandmother?
g) According to an Eastern tradition, it’s not good to stare at one’s own reflection for too long. What many women do, then, is…
1. not to buy mirrors
2. to cover mirrors with velvet
3. to turn the mirrors upside down
h) One of the dangers of this globalized world is…
i) What is the power of story-telling, according to Elif Shafak?
