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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 does Rahim Kahn want Amir to do in Chapter 17?
(a) Visit Sohrab in Afghanistan.
(b) Take over the orphanage.
(c) Move back into Baba's house and care for Sohrab.
(d) Get Sohrab from Afghanistan.

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

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

4. How long have Soraya and Amir been married in Chapter 14?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 20 years.
(c) 15 years.
(d) 10 years.

5. When Amir first asks Sohrab to come with him to America, how does Sohrab respond?
(a) He refuses to leave.
(b) He does not respond.
(c) He jumpes for joy.
(d) He asks to think about it for a day or two.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Hassan's first child?

2. Where is Sohrab in Chapter 17?

3. What does Amir eat as he waits for the man with sunglasses in Chapter 22?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe one example of irony in Chapter 22.

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

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

8. What happened to the orphanage that Baba built?

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

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

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