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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the long engagement period forgone for Amir and Soraya?
(a) Due to college starting.
(b) Due to Baba's illness.
(c) Due to Soraya's past indiscretions.
(d) Due to financial matters.

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

3. 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.

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

5. Where did Rahim Kahn live for many years?
(a) In Baba's House.
(b) In his own house.
(c) In Hassan's mud hut.
(d) In Baba's Orphanage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who/what divided Kabul into sections?

2. Where does the director tell Amir he might find Sohrab?

3. What happens to the adulterous couple paraded into the arena during half-time at the soccer match?

4. What does Rahim Kahn want Amir to do in Chapter 17?

5. Why are officials patrolling the stadium during the soccer match?

Short Essay Questions

1. Amir goes to Kabul to save Sohrab; however, is this what actually happens?

2. What happened to the American couple who was to adopt Sohrab?

3. In Chapter 13, what does Amir feel is coming between him and Soraya in their marriage?

4. Explain why Amir comments in Chapter 19 that he feels like a tourist in the country in which he was a child?

5. Why do you think Amir continues to refuse to share the truth about his quest with Farid in Chapter 21?

6. What does Rahim Kahn use to persuade Amir to go and find Sohrab in Chapter 17?

7. Describe the difference between the motivation for Amir leaving money under Hassan's mattress as a child and leaving it under Farid's family's mattress as an adult.

8. Why does Amir believe Rahim Kahn knows his secret?

9. Describe one example of irony in Chapter 22.

10. Why does Sohrab not have to go back to the orphanage in Chapter 24?

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