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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 happened to most of the trees in Kabul, which used to be plentiful?
(a) They were bombed and destroyed.
(b) The Taliban destroyed them.
(c) The poor burned them for firewood.
(d) The poor cut them down to build orphanages.

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

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

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

5. In Chapter 14, where does Amir plan to travel to see Rahim Khan?
(a) Russia.
(b) San Diego.
(c) Afghanistan.
(d) Pakistan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Amir decide to go at the end of Chapter 18?

2. Where does Amir offer to take Rahim Kahn in Chapter 15?

3. In what disguise does Amir travel to Afghanistan in Chapter 19?

4. When Amir first asks Sohrab to come with him to America, how does Sohrab respond?

5. What happened to the pomegranate tree?

Short Essay Questions

1. What changes Hassan's mind about moving back to Kabul with Rahim Kahn?

2. What is the major theme of Chapter 18?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What happened to the orphanage that Baba built?

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

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