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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long after Amir and Baba left Afghanistan does Rahim Kahn find Hassan?
(a) 15 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 20 years.

2. Who is Amir's guide on his journey back to Afghanistan in Chapter 19?
(a) Sohrab.
(b) Farid.
(c) Ali.
(d) Rahim Khad.

3. What were Amir's injuries from the man in the sunglasses?
(a) A cut on his face and a broken leg.
(b) Broken ribs and a cut upper lip.
(c) Internal injuries and an eye wound.
(d) Broken rips and a cut lower lip.

4. What happens to the adulterous couple paraded into the arena during half-time at the soccer match?
(a) They are whipped to death.
(b) Their pictures are taken and sold as pornography.
(c) They are stoned to death.
(d) They are hung.

5. What is Sohrab amazed to see in Chapter 24?
(a) A mosque.
(b) Cartoons.
(c) The American Embassy.
(d) A nice hotel.

6. In Chapter 18, Who does Amir believe committed a sin?
(a) Baba.
(b) Himself.
(c) Rahim Khan.
(d) Hassan.

7. Who lived with Rahim Kahn for 10 years?
(a) Orphans.
(b) Ali.
(c) Assef.
(d) Hassan.

8. What does the cut on his lip remind Amir of?
(a) Hassan's cleft palate.
(b) Assef and the fight.
(c) His father, Baba's scars.
(d) His mother's death.

9. Who is the beggar that Amir gives some money in Chapter 20?
(a) A university professor who worked with Hassan's mother.
(b) A teacher who Amir had had as a child.
(c) A teacher who was friends with Baba.
(d) A university professor who worked with Amir's mother.

10. How is the man with the sunglasses beaten in the end?
(a) Amir punishes him with the brass knuckles.
(b) Amir hits him in the eye with a brass ball from his slingshot.
(c) Sohrab hits him in the eye with a brass ball from his slingshot.
(d) Sohrab punishes him using the brass knuckles.

11. At first, the people of Afghanistan viewed the Taliban as what?
(a) Divisionists.
(b) Liberators.
(c) The worst rulers.
(d) Enemies.

12. What do Farid and Amir see on their way to the soccer match in Chapter 21?
(a) A body left hanging in the street.
(b) A woman hanging from his father's house.
(c) A crippled man begging for a new leg.
(d) Sohrab being chased through the streets.

13. Who appears at Hassan's door, bloody and broken and in need of care?
(a) Amir.
(b) Sanaubar.
(c) Rahim Kahn.
(d) Sohrab.

14. Why does Farid assume Amir has come to Afghanistan in Chapter 19?
(a) To rebuild the orphanage.
(b) To rebuild his life.
(c) To sell family property and take the money back with him to America.
(d) To save Sohrab from the orphanage.

15. Who pays for Amir and Soraya's wedding?
(a) Baba uses his life savings.
(b) The General uses his life savings.
(c) Soraya uses her life savings.
(d) Amir uses his life savings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to most of the trees in Kabul, which used to be plentiful?

2. What are the respective majors of Soraya and Amir in college?

3. Where does Amir go after leaving Rahim Khan to think about his choices in Chapter 18?

4. Where do Farid, Amir and Sohrab travel?

5. What style of literary expression does Amir often use to describe his reunion with Rahim Khan?

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