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

2. Where does the director tell Amir he might find Sohrab?
(a) A soccer match.
(b) A slingshot tournament.
(c) A field hockey match.
(d) A kite tournament.

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

4. For what does Amir feel responsible?
(a) Hassan's life.
(b) Baba's death.
(c) The destruction of the orphanage.
(d) Rahim Khan's illness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rahim Khan want Amir to wait a little longer before beginning his journey in Chapter 19?

2. What happens to Hassan's first child?

3. Why is Baba's speech at Amir's engagement party not more impressive?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Sohrab react to the idea of being put back in an orphanage temporarily?

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

5. Why do Farzana and Hassan nurse his mother back to health?

6. What is the major theme of Chapter 18?

7. Why was Amir so taken with listening to the stories about his mother that the beggar shared in Chapter 20?

8. With whom does Amir set up a meeting in Chapter 21?

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

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

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