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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Baba do when Ali and Hassan prepare to leave in Chapter 9?
(a) Begs them to stay.
(b) Hurries them along.
(c) Ignores them.
(d) Yells at Amir.

2. To Amir, the week represents _______ and Soraya represents __________.
(a) Spring/winter.
(b) Winter/summer.
(c) Fall/spring.
(d) Winter/spring.

3. What happens to the story Amir gives to Soraya to read?
(a) She reads it and enjoys it
(b) She feels shame from the story
(c) Her father destroys it
(d) Her mother chaperones her as she reads it

4. Why did Baba's father take home Ali?
(a) His parents were killed.
(b) They were of the same ethnicity and it was mandatory.
(c) He was friends to Ali's father.
(d) He bought him to serve as his servant.

5. Why did Sanaubar leave?
(a) She was very religious.
(b) She was immoral.
(c) She died in childbirth.
(d) Because Hassan was deformed.

6. Which of the following is not a difference between Amir and Hassan?
(a) Culture.
(b) Religion.
(c) Race.
(d) Class.

7. When does Hassan stop smiling?
(a) After Assef threatens him.
(b) When Baba hugs Amir.
(c) When Ali dies.
(d) After his surgery.

8. Which of the following can be used to describe how Amir is happy for the attack because it lead his father to give him a hug?
(a) Irony.
(b) Personification.
(c) Simile.
(d) Metaphor.

9. How did Rahim Kahn know Amir?
(a) He was his father's friend.
(b) He was the father of Amir's friend.
(c) He was Amir's father.
(d) He was a long time friend of Amir.

10. What is Amir determined to win in Chapter 6?
(a) Hassan's loyalty.
(b) Hassan a new home.
(c) The kite tournament.
(d) A three-month break from school.

11. Who, was it rumored, wrestled a bear in his youth?
(a) Ali.
(b) Baba.
(c) Amir.
(d) Hassan.

12. For what does Amir hope to gain pardon by winning the kite tournament?
(a) His father's thinking of him as weak.
(b) His mother's death.
(c) Visiting the mud hut where Hassan lives.
(d) Making Hassan eat dirt.

13. Where does Amir learn some of the true history of the Hazara people?
(a) His teacher.
(b) Baba.
(c) Hassan.
(d) An old history book.

14. What is the benefit of winter to the children of Afghanistan?
(a) A three month break from school.
(b) The end of the conflict.
(c) Religious holidays begin.
(d) The beginning of the school year.

15. In what year does Chapter 10 occur?
(a) 2001.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1981.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Assef do to Hassan in the alley after the kite tournament?

2. Why does Amir believe that the bear wrestling story was true?

3. Baba was close to who during his childhood?

4. Unusual for Baba, he demonstrates an open-minded opinion of which of the following in Chapter 11?

5. Before Baba passes away, what does Amir ask of him?

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