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

2. Who/what divided Kabul into sections?
(a) Russians.
(b) Militant factions.
(c) Rahim Kahn.
(d) Former government.

3. What happened to Hassan and his wife?
(a) They were drug from their home and beaten.
(b) They are in an orphanage.
(c) They fled to Pakistan.
(d) They were shot by the Taliban.

4. Where does Amir go after leaving Rahim Khan to think about his choices in Chapter 18?
(a) Kabul.
(b) A coffee shop.
(c) Home.
(d) Baba's old house.

5. What style of literary expression does Amir often use to describe his reunion with Rahim Khan?
(a) Personification.
(b) Cliches.
(c) Metaphors.
(d) Similes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the beggar that Amir gives some money in Chapter 20?

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

3. When Amir goes for a walk in Chapter 14, what does he see that makes him remember his childhood?

4. Why does Amir not see more adult males in the streets of Kabul in Chapter 20?

5. How long have Soraya and Amir been married in Chapter 14?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What skill does Soraya's mother have that she has been forbidden to share in public?

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

5. What is the major theme of Chapter 18?

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

7. Why does Rahim Kahn refuse Amir's offer to take him to America for newer and better treatments for his illness?

8. What do kites symbolize to Amir, as seen in Chapter 14?

9. In Chapter 17, what does Amir deduce is his relationship with Hassan?

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

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