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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the respective majors of Soraya and Amir in college?
(a) Education & English.
(b) History & Education.
(c) English & Economics.
(d) English & Math.

2. What does Amir find he has in common with Sohrab?
(a) Singing.
(b) A cleft palate.
(c) Playing cards.
(d) Writing stories.

3. Why are officials patrolling the stadium during the soccer match?
(a) To stone anyone who cheers to loudly.
(b) To ensure there is not a riot.
(c) To whip anyone who cheers to loudly.
(d) To whip anyone rooting for the wrong team.

4. What does Farid warn Amir not to do after he meets his first Taliban officers?
(a) Not to speak.
(b) Not to stare.
(c) Not to remove his beard.
(d) Not to give money to the beggars.

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

6. Who is the man with the sunglasses?
(a) Sohrab.
(b) Ali.
(c) Assef.
(d) Hassan.

7. Who left town while Amir was in the hospital?
(a) Ali.
(b) Assef.
(c) Rahim Khan.
(d) Sohrab.

8. What must Amir do to get Sohrab in Chapter 22?
(a) Fight Sohrab to the death.
(b) Pay Assef great sums of money.
(c) Fight Assef to the death.
(d) Compete against Assef in a kite tournament.

9. What does Rahim Kahn give to Amir in Chapter 17 from Hassan?
(a) Money.
(b) A watch.
(c) A letter.
(d) Bicycle.

10. Who is Hassan's father?
(a) Baba.
(b) Rahim Khan.
(c) Amir.
(d) Ali.

11. Who throws the engagement party for Amir and Soraya?
(a) Baba.
(b) No one.
(c) The General.
(d) Amir and Soraya.

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

13. What happens to Hassan's first child?
(a) She is stillborn.
(b) She is killed by the Taliban.
(c) The Taliban take her.
(d) She lives and becomes great friends with her grandmother.

14. What affinity does Sohrab have that helped Amir begin to track him down in Chapter 20?
(a) Writing.
(b) Slingshots.
(c) Guns.
(d) Kites.

15. Who does Soraya call to help with the adoption process?
(a) Her uncle, who works for the INS.
(b) Her brother, who works for the INS.
(c) Her uncle, a lawyer.
(d) Her brother, who is a lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Amir going to visit Rahim Khan in Chapter 14?

2. What did Hassan's wife do that lead to a beating by Taliban officials?

3. Where is Sohrab in Chapter 17?

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

5. What does Farid leave under a mattress in Farid's home?

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